Twenty-five years after The Corrections became a publishing phenomenon, a series adaptation of Jonathan Franzens novel has found a home at Netflix.

Meryl Streep will star in a limited series based on the novel, which Franzen is adapting. Cord Jefferson (American Fiction, Watchmen) will direct. Netflix gave a striaght-to-series order to the project, which comes from Paramount Television Studios; Netflix outbid a few other outlets to win the series.

The Corrections has been in development since 2024, with Streep attached throughout the process. It was initially set up at CBS Studios, then moved under Paramount TV Studios following the Skydance-Paramount merger last year. Netflix describes the series as a sharply comic portrait of a Midwestern family whose three unmoored adult siblings desperately resist their mothers (Streep) wish for one last Christmas together each undone by the delusional ambitions that were supposed to save them from becoming their parents.

Franzens novel earned waves of critical acclaim after it was published in 2001. It won the National Book Award for fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year. The Corrections has been included in several lists of the best novels of the 21st century so far.

The Netflix/Paramount TV Studios series is the second attempt at a TV adaptation of The Corrections. HBO filmed a pilot for a possible series in 2012, with Dianne Wiest and Chris Cooper starring, but chose not to pick it up to series.

Franzen will executive produce the series with Jefferson, Streep, Mark Roybal and Paul Lee of Wiip and former PTVS head Nicole Clemens.

Streep will next be seen in The Devil Wears Prada 2, which hits theaters in May. The Oscar and Emmy winner has a thriller called Useful Idiots with Sigourney Weaver on deck, along with a Joni Mitchell biopic from Cameron Crowe.

Deadline first reported the news.