Meryl Streep to Lead ‘The Corrections’ Adaptation at CBS Studios

It’s gonna be so bad

A CBS series? My, how the mighty has fallen!

She's entering her Angela Lansbury era.

God they've been trying to push this up the hill for 20 years. I guess they've thrown up their hands.

No where does it say CBS series. It’s CBS studios. It may be a movie.

It says it's a series, but doesn't say where it will end up. Paramount owns the rights, so it'll probably be Paramount+ or CBS. Unless MTV wants it.

Are there parts in it for us?

Hopefully it will not be the disaster that her movie based on “The Orchid Thief” was. Such a fantastic story ruined by juicing up the plot.

Wasn't The Corrections one of the last of the pre-Amazon, pre-internet (internet existed but wasn't the end all be all of daily life) fiction books to make a big splash - sales and cultural coverage. Or do I have the the timing off?

I'm surprised it wasn't a movie already.

She’ll never stop working.

I have tried to read the book a million times. Nope. Don't get it.

This novel is a masterpiece. A long slog, but worth it. Highly recommend.

R9. I hope not

Whatever happened to her leading in The Nix???

R9 she's barely worked in 4 years

Franzen generally grabs me so I recall reading this in a few days. A lot of the specifics were so early 2000s, but wouldn't be too difficult to change or they could have it be a period piece.

R7 Adaptation is a brilliant film. I detest Cage and even he was great in it.

It's a step up from the third-rate supporting role on Only Murders in the Building.

But damn, it really did all go to shit for her after Weinstein was exposed, didn't it?

Her not working much is not due to Harvey. She had that long film run from The Deer Hunter to The Post. Plus her marriage fell apart and she suddenly had grandkids. Harvey had nothing to do with any of that.

This could be good but it seems light on details.

How the hell do you make a viable movie out of that turgid, monstrously boring rhinoceros snatch of a novel?

I thought it was a series.

It was an Oprah Book Club selection back in 2001. Franzen didn’t want any part of her book club, so Oprah canceled his appearance on the show.

[quote] It says it's a series

No, it doesn’t. It was tried as a series years ago.

R20, the Great M would put her left tit in a Mix Master before appearing in a--mon Dieu!--TV series!

R17 go fuck yourself. She made maybe 2-3 movies Weinstein's company produced. Miramax then Weinstein Company produced tonnes of movies.

Tonnes are for the stage, you mean Oxcars.

R21 what was Franzen's beef with Oprah?

His literary nose got bent out of shape because he thought Oprah’s previous selections were schmalzy and overly sentimental, R26.

I made the mistake of going to a live interview with Franzen about 20 years ago. Total weirdo: slouched in his chair and basically mumbled his way through the interview. Zero stage presence.

Just in time for the 25th anniversary of the book's publication.

Is Cooper Koch too young to play her son Chip, the one who shoplifted some smoked salmon by stuffing it down his pants?

Meryl Streep is to acting what Jonathan Franzen is to fiction writing. Adequate, overwrought, and overrated.

Franzen was pissed when lard ass Oprah put The Corrections in her book club with the other crappy books she was hawking at the time.

I will believe this when it actually happens. In the past, they have announced projects with Meryl (The Nix, or Places, Please) that never happen or get passed on to lesser stars. She also supposedly was going to be in a Joni Mitchell biopic directed by Cameron Crowe but that also has gone radio silent.

"Is Cooper Koch too young to play her son Chip, the one who shoplifted some smoked salmon by stuffing it down his pants?"

Which unlike most men, made his crotch smell BETTER.

Meryl needs a producing partner. They float these projects at market but no one may bid if they don’t want to pay her quote. If she had a producer partner working with her (like Reese or Nicole have) she may have more success. With a few exceptions, gone are the days where an older stars can green light films or series on their own name.

Jonathan Franzen, can you imagine. The man who's on record saying that Graham Greene is "overrated." I don't know about you, but I know whose books *I* would save in a fire!

[quote]the Great M would put her left tit in a Mix Master before appearing in a--mon Dieu!--TV series!

I'm guessing you missed both season two of Big Little Lies and the most recent season of Only Murders in the Building.

No star is above tv series in the 20s. That's where all the best parts are.

Plus HBO's "Angels in America," way back in 2003.

I loved THE CORRECTIONS and loved CROSSROADS even more (now there's a great mother role for Meryl!). As I remember THE CORRECTIONS, it's episodic storytelling is far more suited to a mini-series than a film. And its fans would probably prefer to sit home than go to the mall to watch it.

I just hope that Franzen's involvement in this project won't delay the publication of his promised sequel to CROSSROADS (actually the second in a supposed trilogy).

RE TV: In the '90s, Meryl did this ABC movie-of-the-week about a mom who goes to great lengths to help her young son with severe epilepsy.

Naturally, she was Emmy-nominated, but lost to Alfre Woodard in "Miss Evers' Boys" (HBO)

The other nominees were Stockard Channing in "An Unexpected Family" (USA), Glenn Close in "In the Gloaming" (HBO), and Helen Mirren in "Prime Suspect 5" (PBS).

R40 Meryl did that movie to raise awareness of alternative, effective treatments for epilepsy, based on her friend's experience with her kid. It's one of the very few things she produced.

R24 still she was exposed as the unscropoulos person, ready to praise and suck up to guy who was raping her young colleagues. And a hypocrite who jumped on me too train afterwards.

R42 shut up. You then have to apply that logic to any actor or actress who had any association with him, including Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, Blanchett, Aniston, Pitt, Hopkins, Sharon Stone and hundreds of others. Why was Meryl so targeted?

Jessica Lange and Shirley McClaine's Wild Oats was a Weinstein movie. Did they know too R42?

She also did tv way back in 1978 and won a Golden Globe for Holocaust.

She won the Emmy, not the globe. Her first filmed work was on tv

Wow, I thought this smear of Meryl was over. It was organized by the right after she called out Trump at the Golden Globes, as if she alone was responsible for the crimes of Harvey. Sad to see people still believe it.

Yeah, Meryl and Judi Dench were smuggling starlets to Weinstein. Jessica Lange was on door watch. Helen Mirren did the recording and Colin Firth was in charge of the NDAs...

Anthony Hopkins was head of the drop off cars.

I think Rose McGowan's point was that Meryl was so well-respected in the industry...people would have taken the allegations about Weinstein seriously if she had spoken out publicly about it.

However, Meryl didn't even live in Hollywood, so I do think it's plausible that she just wasn't aware of it.

I think Meryl did that TV move at R40 as a favor for a friend. It was a one-off project, and not really her attempting to "venture" into TV.

The Harvey fiasco has less to do with Meryl and more to do with all the problems of show business. Everyone knew he was a bully and womanizer who bragged about sleeping with actresses and then they won the Academy Award due to his help (including Streep for The Iron Lady). They all tolerated him because he was good at winning Oscars and promoting films. And if someone else had sex with him for a part, they thought, whatever, that's on her. Or they didn't believe his stories about his conquests since it was hard to imagine an Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron or Jennifer Lawrence doing this.

But I don't believe that many people knew that he was raping women and covering it up with NDAs. That knowledge was limited to Miramax executives, staff and attorneys.

Streep became a target once it was revealed because she was the Queen of Hollywood and joked that Harvey was "God" at an awards show. And yes, her mild attack on Trump caused all the subsequent outrage and made her the face of Harvey Weinstein's evils. But she only saw him during film promotion or industry events. She wouldn't know the seedier details of rapes and NDAs.

She did tolerate his known bad behavior (bully or womanizer), but they all did. She did tell her daughters never to go into his office, so she did know he was a bad guy towards women, but they all did. As a group, they enabled Harvey and probably didn't want to think it was worse that it already was.

Hopefully it is behavior that has stopped but of course it probably still goes on. The whole business is geared towards sleeping up and kicking down.

Well said R51

People act like she was a friend of his. He actively cost her the Oscar for Doubt with his dirty campaign for Winslet in The Reader (which she later admitted disgusted even her!)

He also actively campaigned CZJ for Chicago and Helen Mirren for The Queen, meaning Streep lost for Adaptation & The Devil Wears Prada.