Meryl Streep will play a leading role in the series adaptation of The Corrections

The Corrections could finally make it to the small screen - with Meryl Streep as the leading lady. Sources have confirmed that Streep (pictured) will star in the CBS Studios project. Author Jonathan Franzen adapts the 2001 novel about a Midwestern couple and their adult children into a film.



CBS Studios, which produces along with wiip, will release the project soon. Franzen, WiIP's Mark Roybal and Nicole Clemens (formerly of Paramount TV Studios) will produce.

Attempts have been made before to bring the book to the silver screen. In 2011, HBO ordered a pilot from Noah Baumbach. Scott Rudin, who had been developing the project for a decade, originally as a feature film, would produce alongside Baumbach and Franzen. The pilot starred Chris Cooper, Dianne Wiest, Ewan McGregor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans and Greta Gerwig. The following year, however, HBO declined to move forward.