The first casting announcement has been made for the upcoming adaptation of one of Emily Henry’s best-selling books.
Tom Blyth and Emily Bader to star in feature film adaptation of Henry people we meet on vacationannounced Friday.
my lady jane star badr Will play Poppy The Hunger Games: The Song of Birds and Snakes Star Bryce will play Alex. The story will follow the best friends who spend a week together every summer. However, things changed two years after they stopped talking. When Poppy reaches out and convinces Alex to take another vacation together, she decides it’s time to repair their broken relationship. But they haven’t yet faced the self-evident truth: Are they really just friends or is there more to their relationship?
Henry’s people we meet on vacation Published in 2021 by Berkeley, a division of Penguin Random House, and first published in New York Times Reached the bestseller list and sold over 2 million copies in the United States
Brett Haley will direct and Kuang Yulin will adapt the script. Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen, Wyke Godfrey and Isaac Klausner will serve as producers. Temple Hill’s Laura Quicksilver and Erin Siminoff are overseeing the project for 3000 Pictures.
The film is produced under a partnership in which Sony Pictures will provide Netflix with first-look rights to films it intends to produce for streaming.
Blyth is represented by Gersh, United Agents UK, MJ Management and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Bader is repped by Innovative Artists, Luber Roklin Entertainment and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.
people we meet on vacation This is just one of the novels in the Henry Book universe to receive the adaptation treatment. Four of her novels are being made into films— beach reading, people we meet on vacation, book lover and funny story ——And her novels, happy place A series will be filmed on Netflix.
In the casting announcement, Netflix shared a video of Bud learning she’d landed the role of Poppy, and Bryce was on hand to celebrate. Henry later joined the pair in congratulating the pair, noting that she was confident readers and new fans would “totally fall in love with Poppy and Alex because you played them.”
