Florence Pugh is all over our screens at the moment – she's in enormous’vast’massive’tremendous movies and heralded TV series, crossing both as Yelena in Black Widow and Hawkeye. Now she's attached to star in and co-manufacture a miniseries adaptation of East Of Eden, which has Zoe Kazan on board to write and executive manufacture in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Netflix.###The series will follow John Steinbeck's classic novel, sketching an intimate portrait of the Trask family against the backdrop of huge historical in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ces and will explore themes of trauma and repair; love and betrayal; duty and free will.###Netflix grabbed the project after a bidding war and has the project in early development. Kazan, despite’in spite of’albeit , is excited to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure going. "I fell in love with East Of Eden when I first read it, in my teens. Since then, adapting Steinbeck’s novel – the great, sprawling, three-generational entirety of it – has been my dream. More than anything, I possess’own’nurse wanted to give full expression to the novel’s astonishing, singular antiheroine, Cathy Ames," Kazan says in a statement picked up by Deadline. "Florence Pugh is our dream Cathy; I can’t 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 – and shed new light on it in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a twenty-first century audience."###There's a Kazan family connection to the story already – Zoe’s grandfather, Elia Kazan, directed a cinematic take on the tale in 1955 in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Warners.