Netflix has ordered "East of Eden," a seven episode limited series based on John Steinbeck’s famed novel in 1952.

It’s the film that made James Dean famous. Director Elia Kazan transformed the fourth part of John Steinbeck’s magnum opus, East of Eden (1952), into a blockbuster film in 1955, in which Dean played Caleb ‘Cal’ Trask,

Netflix will revisit a classic novel for its latest prestige series. The streamer has formally greenlit East of Eden, a limited series based on John Steinbeck’s 1952 novel. The book was previously adapted for a 1955 movie directed by Elia Kazan that was notable as James Dean’s first lead role.

Florence Pugh and Mike Faist have signed on to star in a TV remake of the classic film East of Eden. The pair will lead the cast in a seven-episode limited series for Netflix. East of Eden, a 1952 novel written by John Steinbeck,