Florence Pugh to Star in East of Eden Limited Series Adaptation at Netflix - TVLine

Florence Pugh is breathing new life into another classic novel: The Little Women star is set to headline Netflix’s adaptation of East of Eden, our sister site Deadline reports.

(Her grandfather Elia Kazan directed the original 1955 film version.) Based on the John Steinbeck novel, East of Eden follows several generations of the Trask family — and the movie version gave a young James Dean his first major screen role.

Pugh will play Cathy Ames, the role played by Jo Van Fleet in the film.

“Since then, adapting Steinbeck’s novel — the great, sprawling, three-generational entirety of it — has been my dream.