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Prime Video’s latest large YA bet, Boys of Tommen, has group cast.
The romanticist play from The Summer I Turned Pretty studio wiip has formed Nancy Surridge successful nan lead domiciled of Shannon Lynch, nan awkward and mysterious caller woman astatine Tommen College. Conor Sánchez will bring Johnny Kavanagh, nan aureate boy of Tommen, to life, pinch James O’Donoghue as nan troubled but loyal Joey Lynch, and Sophie McGibbon as nan fiercely assured Aoife Molloy.
The show follows nan forbidden emotion communicative of Johnny Kavanagh, nan prima rugby subordinate connected nan verge of a pro career, and Shannon Lynch, nan talented but painfully awkward caller woman astatine nan prestigious backstage schoolhouse of Tommen College successful Ballylaggin, Ireland. Both teenagers are hiding secrets; Johnny, a perchance career-ending injury, and Shannon, a troubled and convulsive homelife. Through their concealed and highly charged connection, nan 2 teens from other worlds conflict against nan likelihood and find a measurement to prevention each other.
Boys of Tommen is nan latest successful a agelong statement of Prime Video YA shows and is based connected nan deed book bid by Chloe Walsh. It is being adapted by Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’s Poppy Cogan and comes from head Brendan Canty. Ingrid Goodwin is bid producer.
Cogan said: “These characters person lived successful nan hearts and minds of millions of readers, and nan consequence to them has been overwhelming, truthful uncovering nan correct cast was incredibly important. Chloe has created specified a rich, emotionally vivid world successful these books, and arsenic nan writer adapting this communicative for surface it’s been a privilege to be entrusted pinch bringing that world to life.”
The series, which was greenlit earlier this year, is produced by world independent workplace wiip successful relation pinch Amazon MGM Studios, pinch Metropolitan providing section accumulation services. Series 1 has been adapted by Cogan (A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder) and will beryllium based connected nan first 2 novels successful Walsh’s bestselling series, Binding 13 and Keeping 13. Cogan besides serves arsenic EP alongside writer of nan Walsh, wiip’s Paul Lee, Hope Hartman and Sean Flanagan, Temple Hill’s Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, James Seidman and Annika Patten and Drama Republic’s Greg Brenman and Deena Butt. Carla Stronge serves arsenic casting director.
