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EXCLUSIVE: Another high-profile TV package has been won by Netflix successful a competitory situation. The streamer has landed The Corrections, based connected Jonathan Franzen’s bestselling 2001 novel, pinch three-time Oscar victor Meryl Streep attached to star. Franzen is adapting his book, and Oscar victor Cord Jefferson (American Fiction, Watchmen) is directing each episodes of nan constricted play from Paramount Television Studios, which has received a straight-to-series order.
At Netflix, The Corrections will beryllium portion of nan prestige play slate overseen by VP Nora Skinner. Building up that portion of nan portfolio has been a large privilege for Netflix nether Head of UCAN (U.S. and Canada) Scripted Series Jinny Howe who recruited Skinner from HBO successful 2024.
Netflix’s prestige roster includes respective bid nan streamer landed successful bidding wars, Rabbit, Rabbit starring Adam Driver, which is headed into production; Enigma Variations starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson; So Far Gone, from writer Mark Bomback; Black Hole, based connected Charles Burns’ schematic novels; Weather Girl starring Julia McDermott; and Thumblite, which is presently successful limbo aft showrunner changes.
Based connected Franzen’s National Book Award-winning novel, The Corrections is simply a sharply comic image of a Midwestern family whose 3 unmoored big siblings desperately defy their mother’s wish for 1 past Christmas together – each undone by nan illusion ambitions that were expected to prevention them from becoming their parents.
Streep (Don’t Look Up, Big Little Lies) will play nan mother, Enid.
She executive produces pinch Franzen, Jefferson, Mark Roybal (Task, Mare of Easttown) and Paul Lee (Task, The Summer I Turned Pretty) for wiip; and erstwhile Paramount TV Studios President Nicole Clemens (Sexy Beast, Shantaram).
Netflix bought The Corrections from Paramount TV Studios, which is owned by Paramount, nan institution that precocious outbid Netflix for Warner Bros. The streaming-focused PTVS was formed aft past August’s Skydance-Paramount Global merger to proviso related Paramount+ and extracurricular platforms.
I perceive The Corrections was sounded to Paramount+, which bid connected it. HBO did not, having developed its ain return connected Franzen’s book a decade and a half ago, sources said.
This marks nan 2nd Netflix bid order for a bid that originated astatine nan now-defunct Paramount TV Studios nether Clemens, on pinch nan upcoming Little House On nan Prairie reboot, which already has been renewed for a 2nd season.
The Corrections, Little House On nan Prairie and nan remainder of PTVS’ slate moved to related CBS Studios aft nan explanation was unopen down successful August 2024. When nan PTVS moniker was resurrected aft Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount Global for a caller accumulation portion combining nan assets of Skydance Television, Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, Nickelodeon live-action and Awesomeness, nan mostly of nan aged PTVS slate that had migrated to CBS Studios, including The Corrections, reverted backmost to nan caller PTVS. (A fistful of PTVS projects that had moved further on while astatine CBS Studios, including Little House connected nan Prairie and Apple TV+’s Murderbot, stayed there.)
This is nan latest competitory TV task to spell to Netflix complete nan past respective months arsenic nan streamer has been fierce astir filling its pipeline. It joins Next Door, starring Tessa Thompson, arsenic good arsenic a fewer that Netflix won pinch straight-to-series orders: Rabbit, Rabbit; So Far Gone; Joshua Zetumer’s spec Pagans; Black Hole; and Trigger Point, starring Joel Edgerton.
HBO successful 2021 ordered a aviator for The Corrections from Noah Baumbach, Franzen and Scott Rudin, who had been processing nan book adjustment for a decade, primitively arsenic a feature. The pilot, which featured an all-star formed of Chris Cooper, Dianne Wiest, Ewan McGregor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans and Greta Gerwig, did not spell forward.
In summation to Little House At nan Prairie, PTVS produces Netflix’s celebrated drama bid Emily In Paris and XO, Kitty. The streamer besides precocious nabbed U.S. streaming rights to nan studio’s Paramount+ bid from Taylor Sheridan, The Mayor of Kingstown.
This marks Streep’s 3rd lead domiciled successful a constricted series. She won an Emmy for some erstwhile ones, NBC’s Holocaust and HBO’s Angels In America. She has received Supporting Actress Emmy nominations for her different 2 awesome bid roles to date, connected HBO’s Big Little Lies (drama) and Hulu’s Only Murders In nan Building (comedy).
In features, Streep adjacent is reprising her Oscar-nominated domiciled arsenic Miranda Priestly successful The Devil Wears Prada 2, which is being released May 1. She is repped by CAA and Gendler, Kelly & Cunningham.
Jefferson, an Oscar and BAFTA Award victor for his American Fiction screenplay, won a Writing for a Limited Series Emmy for Watchmen, shared pinch Damon Lindelof. He is repped by CAA, 3 Arts and Ziffren Brittenham.
Franzen is repped by Rich Green astatine The Gotham Group, Susan Golomb astatine Writers House, and lawyer Alex Kohner.
