Emily Henry is a bestselling author known for her novels Book Lovers and People We Meet on Vacation. She has sold more than 2.5 million copies of her books, with her next, Happy Place, set to release this month.
Now, Henry has a new film adaptation coming to the big screen. Beach Read will be directed by Yulin Kuang in its adaptation for 20th Century Studios.
Kuang is an author, screenwriter and director, with a three-book deal at Avon following her debut novel, Good in a Room. She recently adapted Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation for the screen and is no stranger to the author’s work or the genre.
Beach Read is sure to be a hit when it arrives in theatres in the coming years, with an enemies-to-lovers plotline, a dash of comedy, and lots of feel-good moments. You’ll have plenty of time to read the book before it makes its debut on the big screen.
About Beach Read:
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.
They’re polar opposites.
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.
Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.
