Literary adaptations: September 27, 2024

Here's a news roundup on adaptations or productions of literature.

• Netflix will adapt John Steinbeck’s East of Eden into a seven-part limited series starring Little Women's Florence Pugh (The Hollywood Reporter).

• Jessica Biel has pulled out of the lead role in Peacock's series adaptation of Karin Slaughter's The Good Daughter, but she'll remain in another book adaptation — The Better Sister, based on Alafair Burke's novel (Just Jared).

• Sally Rooney's third novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, will not follow in the footsteps of its predecessors and become a TV series (People).

• Meryl Streep will star in a TV series adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (Book Riot).