Netflix Greenlights Miniseries The Age of Innocence

Netflix has ordered The Age of Innocence, a miniseries based on Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The series was quietly greenlit earlier this year and has been preparing for a fall production start in Europe for several months. Netflix declined to confirm the pickup, instead announcing it on World Book Day last week.

Emma Frost (The White Queen, The White Princess) has written the adaptation and will serve as executive producer and showrunner for the Chernin Entertainment production.


Emma Frost

The Age of Innocence is a fresh take on Edith Wharton’s classic novel of forbidden love set in 19th-century New York. It’s a love triangle that explores themes of freedom, duty, identity, and love in all its forms.

The project is clearly aimed at the broad global fan base of Netflix’s hit romantic drama series Bridgerton, which is also a book adaptation. Frost is executive producing with Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and Tracey Cook of Chernin Entertainment, part of the North Road Company.

Wharton’s novel was adapted into a 1993 Columbia Pictures film by Martin Scorsese, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, and Miriam Margolyes.