Yahoo Lifestyle Emily Henry Teases Film Adaptation of “People We Meet on Vacation”: ‘It’s Gonna Be Good’
The movie version of the author's bestselling romance novel is set to star Tom Blyth and Emily Bader
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Emily Henry in 2023Emily Henry is sharing more information about her novels’ hotly anticipated screen adaptations.
On Sept. 3, the bestselling author appeared on Elin Hilderbrand and Tim Ehrenberg’s Books, Beach, & Beyond podcast, where she discussed the upcoming film adaptation of her 2021 romance novel People We Meet on Vacation. The film is set to be produced by Netflix and will star Tom Blyth and Emily Bader.
“The cast is there on set doing rehearsals now. So things are really, really moving,” Henry said. “[The show has] had a lot of writers. The writer that we hired originally and who has done multiple drafts is Yulin Kuang, who I love. She's fantastic.”
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“There have been a bunch of other punch-ups throughout, so I don't know whose name will make it to the final thing,” Henry added, saying that she’s “very happy with how the script turned out.”
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The cover of 'People We Meet on Vacation' by Emily Henry“Having read so many iterations of the script and seeing all these different writers coming on, I was really, honestly getting worried, because I feel like it's so easy for something to become just a Frankenstein's monster of a movie,” Henry said. “But I think it's gonna be good. I really think it's gonna be good, and I'm very excited about the cast.”
People We Meet On Vacation, which follows two estranged friends who reunite on a trip, is just one of several screen adaptations in the works of Henry’s bestselling romance books. In June, Jennifer Lopez confirmed that she was working on a series adaptation of Henry’s 2023 novel Happy Place, with Netflix and Lopez’s production company Nuyorican. Henry also stated on the podcast that there are updates for the adaptation of her latest novel Funny Story, set to be produced by Lyrical Media and Ryder Picture Company.
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“I have a notes call for the first draft of the script later this week, and so that's moving,” Henry said, adding that “everything is kind of moving.”
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Henry, who is also co-writing the script for parts of Happy Place, notes that watching TV and movies have impacted her writing, as well.
“I think that TV and movies have influenced so much of my writing style,” Henry said. “I think that's always been a piece of things, but I didn't learn how to do screenwriting. I was just sort of like, ‘Well, I'm going to study writing, and maybe that's what I'll do.’ And then I never took a screenwriting class or anything like that.”
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