Film history, as it shall be written, will cite this announcement as a musical triangle in the blaring orchestra that sounds the death knell of big screen cinema. Following the footsteps of Gloria Swanson, Loretta Young, and Donna Reed, Meryl Streep is heading to television.
Deadline reports that multi-Oscar-winner Streep is set to star in and co-produce a TV adaptation of “The Nix,” focusing on “a hippie-era mother who gets national press exposure for throwing rocks at a conservative governor.”
NPR described the bestselling novel as “a vicious, black-hearted and beautiful satire of youth and middle-age, feminine hygiene products, frozen foods and social media,” while EW’s Leah Greenblatt called it “a cat’s cradle of interconnected plotlines that loop and twist from WWII-era Norway to the 1968 DNC riots in Chicago, Midwestern ’80s suburbia, post-9/11 New York, and even the sunbaked battlefields of Iraq.”
In the midst of “Florence Foster Jenkins” awards talk this season, Streep is also tied to the Emily Blunt-starring Mary Poppins sequel/reboot “Mary Poppins Returns” as a character named Topsy, which is set for a 2017 release.
