Dark TV Adaptation of ‘Little Women’ is in Development

The CW is thinking about adding a TV adaptation of a classic novel to its schedule.

The network is currently developing a “hyper-stylized, gritty adaptation” of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel Little Women, according to Deadline. Alexis Jolly will write and also executive-produce the project alongside NCIS actor Michael Weatherly through his company Solar Drive Productions in association with CBS TV Studios.

The series will follow “half-sisters Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy” as they team up “to survive the dystopic streets of Philadelphia and unravel a conspiracy that stretches far beyond anything they have ever imagined – all while trying not to kill each other in the process.”

In the novel, the story follows the four March sisters as they grow into adults during the 1800s. Little Women has been adapted multiple times over the past few decades, including a 1994 film with Christian Bale,Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, and a young Kirsten Dunst, a 1949 film with Elizabeth Taylor and June Allyson, and a 1933 film starring Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett.