Dianne Wiest & Chris Cooper to Star in HBO Pilot for The Corrections, Based on Jonathan Franzen Novel

Oscar winners Dianne Wiest and Chris Cooper will headline an HBO pilot for a proposed series based on Jonathan Franzen’s best-selling novel The Corrections, according to Deadline.com. Noah Baumbach is set to co-produce with Franzen and Tony winner Scott Rudin; Baumbach will also direct the pilot from a script he is co-writing with Franzen.

The Corrections centers on a troubled Midwestern couple (Wiest and Cooper) and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the mid-20th century to a holiday spent together near the millennium. No other casting has been announced.

Wiest begins previews on November 16 in Classic Stage Company’s off-Broadway revival of The Cherry Orchard. She most recently appeared on Broadway in the 2008 revival of All My Sons. She won Oscars for her work in Woody Allen’s Bulllets Over Broadway and Hannah and Her Sisters and played a psychiatrist in HBO's In Treatment.

An Oscar winner for Adaptation, Cooper played Antonio in Julie Taymor’s film adaptation of The Tempest and appeared off-Broadway in Trumbo.