{"id":59135,"date":"2022-06-22T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=216508"},"modified":"2022-06-22T15:06:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T15:06:56","slug":"florence-pugh-netflix-east-of-eden","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/florence-pugh-netflix-east-of-eden\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence Pugh Will Star and Co-Produce Netflix Period Drama ‘East of Eden’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After the official trailer for Persuasion<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>was released last week, another period drama has been announced for Netflix. According to Deadline<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>the streaming platform was awarded the rights to a limited series adaption of the groundbreaking novel East of Eden.<\/em> Florence Pugh<\/a> is set to both star and co-produce the project while Zoe Kazan, known for her role in Clickbait, <\/em>is set to write and executive produce.<\/p>\n

For viewers unfamiliar with East of Eden, <\/em>the book was written by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck and published in 1952. The storyline is set in California’s farmland of Salinas Valley and follows two families \u2014 the Trasks and the Hamiltons \u2014 “whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel,” according to the synopsis<\/a>. Pugh and Kazan are now looking for a director to lead the series.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI fell in love with East of Eden when I first read it, in my teens. Since then, adapting Steinbeck\u2019s novel \u2014 the great, sprawling, three-generational entirety of it \u2014 has been my dream. More than anything, I have wanted to give full expression to the novel\u2019s astonishing, singular antiheroine, Cathy Ames,\u201d Kazan said in a statement. \u201cFlorence Pugh is our dream Cathy; I can\u2019t imagine a more thrilling actor to bring this character to life. Writing this limited series over the last two years has been the creative highpoint of my life. I hope that with our partners at Netflix, Anonymous Content, and Endeavor Content, we can do justice to this material \u2014 and shed new light on it for a 21st century audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The novel was previously adapted into a 1955 film of the same name starring James Dean.<\/p>\n