HBO has decided not to go forward with its drama pilot "The Corrections."
The network told TheWrap that it has pulled the plug on the project, based on the Jonathan Franzen novel. The pilot would have starred Ewan McGregor as Chip, the younger son of an elderly Midwestern couple trying to draw all of their children home for one last Christmas together." In the book, Chip is a writer and academic who gets mixed up with a Lithuanian crime boss.
Franzen co-wrote the pilot, which had begun shooting in New York, with Noah Baumbach. Scott Rudin was producing.
The pilot was also to star Chris Cooper and Dianne Wiest as the parents. Greta Gerwig was also cast in the project.
