Picture: Meryl Streep (left) and Jonathan Franzen’s best selling novel The Corrections (right)
Netflix has picked up the televisiona adaptation of The Corrections from Paramaount Television Studios. Three-time Acadaemy Award winning actress Meryl Streep will play the lead role, and executive produce. Further details are limited but here’s everything we know so far about The Corrections on Netflix.
The Corrections is an upcoming Netflix Original limited series and adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s 2001 best selling novel of the same name. It has been confirmed that the Academy-Award winning director Cord Jefferson will be directing all of the episodes. Netflix purchased the series from Paramount TV Studios.
CBS Studios is producing the series, with Meryl Streep confirmed as an executive producer alongside author Jonathan Franzen, director Cord Jefferson, Mark Roybal (Task), and Paul Lee (The Summer I Turned Pretty) for wiip. Nicole Clemens, the former Paramount TV Studios President, is also an executive producer.
What is the plot of The Corrections?
The detailed synopsis has been sourced from Production Weekly:
“After almost 50 years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert (Streep) 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, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing specatcularly 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 on 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. Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed.”
Picture: Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections – PICADOR
Who are the cast members of The Corrections?
At the time of writing, the only confirmed cast member is Meryl Streep, who plays the lead role of Enid. Streep is one of the most prolific actresses in Hollywood and is widely regarded as one of the greatest actresses of all time.
Streep is a 21-time Academy Award-nominated actress, having won 3 Oscars. She won her first Oscar in 1979 for Best Supporting Actress in Kramer vs Kramer. Her second and third wins for Best Actress in a Leading Role were for Sophie’s Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011). Some of her other nominations came from films such as The Devil Wears Prada, Julia & Julia, The Post, The Bridges of Madison County, and Out of Africa. She has starred in one Netflix project, in Adam McKay’s 2021 comedy Don’t Look Up.
Picture (L to R): Meryl Streep in her Academy-Award winning films Kramer vs Kramer, Sophie’s Choice, and The Iron Lady.
What is the production status of The Corrections?
The series is still in development, and it’s unclear when filming will begin.
When is The Corrections coming to Netflix?
With filming dates yet to be announced, Netflix will likely take a while to announce a release date or a release window for the series.
A 2028 release for The Corrections is the most realistic. A 2027 release is possible if filming starts before the end of 2026.
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