Academy Award winner Meryl Streep has lastly discovered her subsequent main TV mission because the lead, following a recurring look on Hulu’s Solely Murders within the Constructing.
Per Deadline, Streep has signed on for the main position in Netflix‘s upcoming restricted sequence adaptation of The Corrections, primarily based on Jonathan Franzen’s award-winning 2001 novel. This marks The Satan Wears Prada star’s third miniseries because the lead, following her Emmy-winning performances in 1978’s NBC present Holocaust and 2003’s HBO present Angels in America.
What can we learn about Meryl Streep’s Netflix present?
“The Corrections is a sharply comedian portrait of a Midwestern household whose three unmoored grownup siblings desperately resist their mom’s want for one final Christmas collectively — every undone by the delusional ambitions that had been supposed to avoid wasting them from turning into their dad and mom,” reads the synopsis.
Within the Netflix adaptation, Streep is about to painting the household matriarch, Enid, who’s attempting to deliver her children collectively for what could possibly be their potential ultimate Christmas as a household. The miniseries will probably be directed by Oscar winner Twine Jefferson, with Franzen writing the screenplay. Along with main the solid, Streep can also be serving as an govt producer alongside Franzen, Mark Roybal, Paul Lee, and Nicole Clemens. It’s a manufacturing by Paramount Tv Studios.
Earlier than Netflix picked up the present, a TV adaptation was first arrange at HBO in 2021, with Noah Baumbach, Franzen, and Scott Rudin connected to the mission. The pilot initially starred Ewan McGregor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Greta Gerwig. Regardless of its all-star solid, the community determined to not transfer ahead with the present.
(Supply: Deadline)
