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Romance writer Emily Henry now has 5 of her astir caller novels group to beryllium adapted for nan large screen. Henry went connected a rom-com penning spree that began pinch Beach Read, which came retired successful nan summertime of 2020. She has published a book a twelvemonth since then, pinch People We Meet connected Vacation coming retired successful 2021, Book Lovers arriving successful 2022, Happy Place released successful 2023 and Funny Story hitting shelves successful 2024.
Five of Henry’s books received adjustment optioning deals for films, pinch 3 of them attaching directors. Starting successful 2022, aggregate studios made nan determination to accommodate various Emily Henry books into movies. Great Big Beautiful Life whitethorn beryllium adjacent to get a woody arsenic it is her astir caller fresh published successful 2025.
Read connected to study much astir those down nan adaptations of Emily Henry books to movies.
People We Meet connected Vacation
3000 Pictures tapped Brett Haley to nonstop its adjustment of People We Meet connected Vacation from Yulin Kuang’s adapted screenplay. The task was nan first of 5 Emily Henry caller adaptations to spell into accumulation and get released.
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The movie arrived connected Netflix January 9, 2026. A teaser and afloat trailer were released earlier arrival.
Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey and Isaac Klausner produced, and Laura Quicksilver oversaw nan task for Temple Hill pinch Erin Siminoff and Sophie Kaplan overseeing for nan studio.
People We Meet connected Vacation follows Alex and Poppy, who person thing successful common. She’s spontaneous; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to enactment location pinch a book. But ever since a fateful car-share location from assemblage galore years ago, they are nan very champion of friends. For astir of nan year, they unrecorded acold apart—she’s successful New York City, and he’s successful their mini hometown—but each summer, for a decade, they person taken 1 glorious week of picnic together.
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Haley has nan inheritance of directing Hulu’s Looking for Alaska adapted from John Green’s best-selling book arsenic good arsenic All nan Bright Places adapted from Jennifer Niven’s caller and starring Elle Fanning and Justice Smith.
Kuang has sold her characteristic adjustment of Maureen Goo’s novel I Believe In a Thing Called Love to Netflix pinch A-Major, Lee Byung-hun and Charles Pak producing and Lee Byung-hun starring. She besides sold an original transportation to New Line called Jade Palace. In television, Kuang is adapting/directing a bid based connected nan film 27 Dresses pinch Aline Brosh McKenna producing for ABC Studios, arsenic good arsenic a Jane Austen-inspired bid called Hopeless Romantics for Paramount TV. She is group to nonstop nan movie adjustment of Beach Read, which has found its January Andrews and Gus Everett. More connected that task below.
Beach Read
Yulin Kuang will adapt and nonstop nan movie adaptation of Beach Read for 20th Century Studios pinch Original Film producing. The improvement was announced successful April 2023.
Deadline broke nan news that Phoebe Dynevor has been formed to play nan female lead, January Andrews, successful nan movie, and we besides first reported Patrick Schwarzenegger’s casting arsenic Augustus “Gus” Everett, nan antheral lead.
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The caller tells nan communicative of 2 authors, who person known each different since grad school., who switch genres for nan summertime successful an effort to assistance their respective writers’ artifact for deals that they should beryllium moving on. January and Augustus hap to tally into each different while connected their ain isolated writer’s retreats astatine Lake Michigan.
Kuang’s debut caller How to End a Love Story — which focuses connected 2 screenwriters pinch a fraught past who person feelings for each different — came retired successful April 2024 and was a Reese Witherspoon’s book nine pick.
Book Lovers
In March 2023, Tango revealed its intent to adapt Henry’s Book Lovers, which came retired successful 2022. Sarah Heyward is attached to constitute nan book for nan characteristic film, which comes from nan shaper of Sundance pic Shortcomings and Aftersun arsenic good arsenic Never Rarely Sometimes Always and Spaceman.
Book Lovers tells nan communicative of Nora, a cutthroat literate supplier who, convinced by her sister to walk 1 August vacation successful Sunshine Falls, North Carolina, keeps moving into Charlie, a bookish, brooding editor from backmost successful nan city. It would beryllium a meet-cute if not for nan truth that they’ve met galore times and it’s ne'er been cute. Nora knows she’s not an perfect heroine, and Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but arsenic they are thrown together again and again — successful a bid of coincidences nary editor worthy their brackish would let — what they observe mightiness conscionable unravel nan cautiously crafted stories they’ve written astir themselves.
Heyward is champion known for her activity penning and producing HBO’s Emmy–winning Girls, for which she earned a WGA Award. She besides worked on Modern Love, Amazon’s Emmy-nominated adjustment of nan deed New York Times file arsenic good as SKAM Austin connected Facebook Watch.
Happy Place
Happy Place was been optioned by Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions. The communicative was going to beryllium adapted into a tv bid astatine Netflix nether Nuyorican’s multi-year first-look woody pinch nan streamer. Deadline broke nan news that nan bid had recovered its showrunner, Leila Cohan, who co-executive produces Bridgerton for nan streamer.
In January 2026, nan streamer and writer changed tack to create Happy Place in to a film, pinch Henry committing to penning nan screenplay.
The Berkley-published Happy Place follows Harriet and Wyn, who’ve been a cleanable mates since they met successful assemblage — they spell together for illustration brackish and pepper, chromatic and tea, lobster and rolls. Except now, for reasons they’re still not discussing, they don’t. They collapsed up 5 months ago, but erstwhile their friend group calls an emergency picnic gathering astatine nan Maine formation location wherever they’ve spent astir of their summers, they some answer, but they still haven’t told their champion friends astir nan breakup. They find themselves sharing a chamber astatine nan Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for nan past decade, and proceed to dishonesty done their teeth to their friends astir their narration status.
Funny Story
Henry herself will pen nan book for nan characteristic movie adjustment of her astir caller novel, Funny Story. The adjustment will travel from Lyrical Media and Ryder Pictures Company. In January 2026 connected nan eve of People We Meet connected Vacation‘s release, it was revealed that nan movie will spell to Netflix.
The communicative follows children’s librarian Daphne, who has conscionable been surgery up pinch by her fiancé Peter, who quickly moved connected to his puerility champion friend, Petra. Forced retired of their surviving situation, Daphne takes up residence pinch Miles, Petra’s ex-boyfriend. The brace hatch a clone making love strategy to make their exes suspicious astatine nan wedding, but arsenic pinch nan celebrated trope, nan pair’s shared desire for revenge could spark a full caller flame.
Lyrical Media’s Alexander Black and Natalie Sellers arsenic good as Ryder Picture Company’s Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett will nutrient nan film. Jon Rosenberg and Henry will executive nutrient pinch RPC’s Emma Rappold serving arsenic co-producer. There is nary connection of a head attachment yet.
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