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It’s Florence Pugh’s world, and we’re all simply dwelling in it. The Academy Award-nominated actress, whose roster of high-profile upcoming initiatives consists of Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Fear Darlingand the hotly anticipated sequel to Dune, has added one other buzzy mission to her listing: Netflix’s adaptation of East of Eden.
The brand new tackle John Steinbeck’s basic novel of the identical identify, during which Pugh stars, shall be a restricted sequence penned and government produced by Zoe Kazan. Steinbeck’s 1952 magnum opus tells the interwoven tales of two households, the Hamiltons and the Trasks, dwelling in California’s Salinas Valley from the time of the Civil Struggle to the tip of World Struggle II. The Hamiltons are a household of Irish immigrants, and the Trasks are a rich brood helmed by patriarch Adam.
Kazan’s tackle the bold novel will concentrate on the members of the Trask household, particularly, and the way they're formed by monumental historic occasions. Pugh will play Cathy Ames, the novel’s “antiheroine,” as Kazan describes her in a assertion to Deadline. Cathy is the infamously menacing future spouse of Adam Trask, making Kazan’s learn on the character fairly a … distinctive one.
It’s particularly becoming for Kazan to sort out the beloved household drama: Her grandfather, Elia Kazan, directed the 1955 movie model. The elder Kazan’s movie was a partial adaptation of the latter half of the supply materials, specializing in Adam and Kate (née Cathy) Trask’s sons, Cal and Aron. The enduring film earned a number of Academy Award nods and is greatest identified for starring James Dean as Cal in his first main appearing position.
“I fell in love with East of Eden after I first learn it, in my teenagers,” Zoe Kazan instructed Deadline. “Since then, adapting Steinbeck’s novel—the good, sprawling, three-generational entirety of it—has been my dream.”
East of Eden continues to be within the early levels of improvement, as producers look to forged the remainder of the Trask household and discover a director for the mission. Pugh is government producing alongside Kazan.
An actress herself, Kazan has appeared in motion pictures and exhibits like The Massive Sick and The Deuce. She’s slated to star as Jodi Kantor, one of many reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault story, within the film She Statedlater this yr. She has written two function movies, Ruby Sparks and Wildlife, however East of Eden shall be her first TV writing credit score.