Netflix announces major project starring Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep will play the lead role in a miniseries based on the novel “The Corrections” by American writer Jonathan Franzen, Netflix announced on Thursday, according to EFE.

The project, which will be produced by Paramount Television Studios, will be directed by Cord Jefferson (“Watchmen”) and written by Franzen, who will also serve as executive producer alongside Meryl Streep, CE Report quotes AGERPRES.

“The Corrections” is a comic and satirical portrait of a Midwestern family whose three adult children, lacking clear direction in life, desperately resist their mother’s wish to spend one last Christmas together, each of them being undone by the illusory ambitions that were supposed to save them from becoming like their parents, according to the statement published on Netflix’s Tudum website.

Streep will portray Enid, a woman forced to cope with her husband Alfred’s dementia, her own depression, and the problems faced by their children.

So far, Streep, a three-time Oscar winner, is the only confirmed cast member of the miniseries.

Currently, Meryl Streep is on a promotional tour for the film “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” in which she reprises her iconic role as Miranda Priestly. The film is set to be released in theaters on May 1.