Meryl Streep to star in the series we’ve been waiting 15 years to see filmed

Twenty-five years aft its archetypal release, Jonathan Franzen’s bestselling caller The Corrections has yet recovered its mode to television, with producers adjacent securing the author’s engagement successful the instauration of the series.

As announced by the contented level Netflix, the starring role—Enid Lambert, the family’s matriarch—will beryllium played by Meryl Streep. No different casting names person been confirmed truthful far.

The publication tells the communicative of a dysfunctional household whose 3 big children hesitate to instrumentality to their puerility location to observe Christmas together. Each has their ain reasons, and arsenic the communicative unfolds, the deeper causes of their reluctance—and galore details astir their hidden lives—are revealed.

The bid volition beryllium directed by Emmy Award victor Cord Jefferson (American Fiction, Watchmen), portion the screenplay volition beryllium written by Franzen himself—perhaps explaining the hold of the much-anticipated 2nd installment of his upcoming trilogy, Crossroads.

This marks the 2nd effort to accommodate the caller for television. The first, successful 2011 astatine HBO, failed contempt a completed aviator directed by Noah Baumbach. As it turns out, however, the hold whitethorn person been for the best, arsenic Streep is expected to elevate the relation to caller heights.

At present, the award-winning histrion is connected a promotional circuit for the movie The Devil Wears Prada 2, alongside her co-star Anne Hathaway.