--- title: 'Little Women' Could Get a Dystopian Reboot on the CW description: The March sisters could be getting a 'a hyper-stylized, gritty adaptation' canonical: https://time.com/3978254/little-women-reboot-cw/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-30T10:03:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:22:48.075Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Little Women' Could Get a Dystopian Reboot on the CW og:description: The March sisters could be getting a 'a hyper-stylized, gritty adaptation' og:url: https://time.com/3978254/little-women-reboot-cw/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf0768d152b579a66/69885d25f887dcf1c8e919d9/little-women-movie.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Little women movie adaptation og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Little Women' Could Get a Dystopian Reboot on the CW twitter:description: The March sisters could be getting a 'a hyper-stylized, gritty adaptation' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf0768d152b579a66/69885d25f887dcf1c8e919d9/little-women-movie.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Little Women_ Could Get a Dystopian Reboot on the CW by [Mary Sollosi / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Mary Sollosi / Entertainment Weekly Jul 30, 2015 10:03 AM UTC  American actresses Jean Parker, Joan Bennett, Spring Byington, Frances Dee, and Katharine Hepburn as the March women in a still from an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's book 'Little Women' directed by George Cukor, 1933. American actresses Jean Parker, Joan Bennett, Spring Byington, Frances Dee, and Katharine Hepburn as the March women in a still from an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's book 'Little Women' directed by George Cukor, 1933.RKO Pictures/Getty Images by [Mary Sollosi / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Mary Sollosi / Entertainment Weekly Jul 30, 2015 10:03 AM UTC Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy may be headed to the CW. The network has put _Little Women_, a script adapted from Louisa May Alcott’s beloved 1868 novel, into development, EW has confirmed. _NCIS_ actor Michael Weatherly is executive producing through his Solar Drive Productions along with writer Alexis Jolly, in association with CBS Television Studios. This certainly isn’t the first time Little Women has been adapted for the screen, the most recent version being Gillian Armstrong’s feature starring Winona Ryder and Christian Bale, but you’ve never seen the March sisters like this before. The logline describes Jolly’s script as “a hyper-stylized, gritty adaptation,” in which the sisters “band together in order to survive the dystopic streets of Philadelphia.” Pretty far from playing _The Pilgrim’s Progress_ on Christmas Eve. 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