Ugh, ‘Little Women’ Is Getting a ‘Gritty’ Reboot at The CW

Alcott’s book, which was both a commercial and critical success, follows the lives of four sisters during their passage from childhood to womanhood, loosely based on the author’s own life with her three sisters.

It’s all so picturesque that it is hard to imagine what else could be added to this classic yarn. And presumably, a futuristic and Orwellian Big Brother government is around the corner too because, you know, dystopia.

The CW network in an early script buy for the 2015-16 development season opted for an adaptation of the literary classic by Louisa May Alcott, according to an article on Wednesday by Deadline.

NCIS actor Michael Weatherly is executive producing through his Solar Drive Productions along with writer Alexis Jolly, in association with CBS Television Studios. In the new version, half-sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy band together to survive the gritty, dystopian streets of Philadelphia and unravel a vast conspiracy, while trying not to kill each other. Maybe that was just wishful thinking on my part, but in what universe could Little Women ever be gritty?

Susan Sarandon, Kirsten Dunst, Trini Alvarado, Winona Ryder, and Claire Danes starred in 1994’s Little Women.

Honestly, I did not care for that movie or story at all when I first saw it, but I was also seven. It’s such an obvious match…