Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections , the seismic family saga you couldn’t avoid in the early aughts, is finally getting a screen adaptation. In 2012, Noah Baumbach and Scott Rudin attempted to lasso that late modernist moon for a much-hyped HBO mini-series starring Chris Cooper and Dianne Wiest. But this project was bedeviled with budget trouble , and axed before anyone got to see it. We assume the pilot’s in a Hollywood vault somewhere, locked away with Indy’s Holy Grail and all the other first swings that never saw daylight. Correcting The Corrections has since become something of an in-joke for those of us inclined toward prestige drama—on page, and onscreen. But it seems the faithful will be vindicated at last. Not for the first time, Meryl Streep is swooping in to save the day: a limited series with her highness at the helm is now officially Netflix bound , under the direction of the Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Cord Jefferson. Franzen will adapt his own book.…