Oscar winner Meryl Streep has signed on for the leading role in the upcoming series adaptation of The Corrections, based on Jonathan Franzen’s 2001 novel. The project will be executive produced by Franzen, Mark Roybal, and Nicole Clemens. It hails from CBS Studios, and currently has no streamer or network attached to it yet.
At the moment, Streep is currently starring in Only Murders in the Building Season 4, after previously earning an Emmy nomination for her Season 3 performance as Loretta. Before joining the Hulu comedy, Streep also appeared in Big Little Lies Season 2, Extrapolations, and in Angels in America. For her performance in the latter, she won an Emmy and an Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries.
What is The Corrections series about?
The Corrections centers around a Midwestern couple who decides to have a Christmas reunion with their adult children, due to the family patriarch’s failing health. This marks the second attempted to adapt the novel into a series. Before CBS Studios, HBO previously gave a pilot order to a potential The Corrections series in 2011, with Ewan McGregor and Dianne Wiest originally attached to star. However, HBO ultimately didn’t push through with the adaptation.
The novel’s official synopsis reads: “After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson’s disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives.
The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself that, despite certain alarming indicators, he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man―or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home.”
Source: Variety
