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Netflix has premiered the teaser trailer for the new Florence Pugh-led limited series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel “East of Eden” at Netflix. The show premieres this Fall.
Zoe Kazan writes 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 plays 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 penned the series over two years, previously saying the plan is to adapt “the great, sprawling, three-generational entirety of it.” The series was shot in New Zealand.
Co-starring are Christopher Abbott as Adam Trask, Mike Faist as Charles Trask, Tracy Letts as Cyrus Trask, Martha Plimpton as Faye, Ciarán Hinds as Samuel Hamilton, Joseph Zada as Cal Trask, Joe Anders as Aron Trask, and Hoon Lee.
Garth Davis will helm the first four episodes, while Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre will direct the remaining three episodes.
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