The Age Of Innocence" Limited TV Adaptation in Works

Netflix has ordered "The Age Of Innocence", a limited series based on Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. 

Emma Frost has penned the adaptation and will serve as executive producer and showrunner on the Chernin Entertainment production.

The series was quietly greenlighted earlier this year and has been prepping for a fall start of production in Europe for a couple of months now.

A fresh take on Edith Wharton’s classic novel of forbidden love in 19th century New York, "The Age Of Innocence" is a will-they/won’t-they love triangle exploring themes of freedom, duty, identity, and love in all its forms.

The project is clearly geared toward the wide global fanbase of Netflix’s hit period romance drama "Bridgerton", also a book adaptation.

Frost executive produces with Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and Tracey Cook of Chernin Entertainment, part of the North Road Company.

Wharton’s novel was notably adapted by Martin Scorsese in the 1993 Columbia Pictures feature starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, and Miriam Margolyes.