Florence Pugh is attached to star in and co-produce a new limited series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel “East of Eden” for Netflix.
In addition Zoe Kazan is onboard to write and executive produce for Anonymous Content and Endeavor Content. The book was famously (albeit loosely) adapted by Zoe’s grandfather Elia Kazan for the screen in 1955 and featured James Dean in his first major screen role.
A modern retelling of the Biblical Cain and Abel story and set around the Salinas Valley in California, the multi-generational story follows the Trask family and two sons who compete for the attention of their farmer father.
Pugh would play the book’s iconic antiheroine Cathy Ames, the estranged and mentally unstable wife of the farmer and a cold and cruel mother to the boys.
Kazan says she’s been writing the series over the past two years with the aim being to encompass “the great, sprawling, three-generational entirety of it.”
The producers are now looking to cast its Trask family as well as find a director to helm the series.
Source: Deadline
