Whether authors adapt their own work or step aside for someone else to bring their vision to life, the medium has the ability to reach a fresh audience, as well as touch those already invested in the property in a different way. I just align with this company, both in what they produce and also their ethics and what they believe in as a company, so I just said, ‘I trust you to take it.’”
“I couldn’t imagine anybody better, and certainly I’m not going to tell Shonda Rhimes how to make television. “I decided, straight up, to hand it over completely because it was Shondaland,” Quinn says.
Quinn, the mastermind behind the popular “Bridgerton” literary franchise, serves as a co-executive producer on the Shondaland-Netflix drama series of the same name but did not participate in the writers’ room. Still, adapting one’s own work is not for everyone. “And I also think they’ve seen people be really successful in writing novels and coming over to the film side.” “As we have more streamers and more places to watch it’s just opened up in a lot of ways, and they need more storytellers,” she says. 'To All the Boys' Author Jenny Han Sets 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Series at Amazon
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One of the spotlight panels at Variety’s Virtual TV Fest, taking place June 8-10, will tackle the topic with authors including West, “Bridgerton’s” Julia Quinn and “To All the Boys…” and “The Summer I Turned Pretty” franchise scribe Jenny Han. Historically, it hasn’t been that common for authors to get the opportunity to adapt their own work, but that attitude has been shifting in an industry claiming to be keen on authenticity in its storytelling. West didn’t just hand over her book to television producers for them to adapt she stepped onto the show as a writer and executive producer, helping to shape the screen version. It directly responded to the book’s critique of the lack of visual representation of fat women in the media by making “a piece of representation that’s exactly the thing I’d been missing,” she says, while also fulfilling her dream of writing for television. The final film, " To All The Boys: Always and Forever,” is set to premiere February 12 on Netflix.Having her nonfiction book of essays, “Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman,” turned into a streaming scripted comedy in 2019 checked many boxes for Lindy West.
Jenny Han is the New York Times bestselling author of the “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before" books, which saw a series of film adaptations on Netflix starring Lana Condor, Noa Centineo and Israel Broussard. “The Summer I Turned Pretty” is a trilogy about first love, first heartbreak, and the magic of an unforgettable summer. For those newly discovering the Summer series, I hope you fall in love with these characters and this place that is so dear to my heart,” she added. “For the longtime book fans, I think it will have been worth the wait. “The Summer I Turned Pretty is many years in the making, and I’m so excited to tell Belly’s story in 2021,” the author was quoted as saying. “Summer I Turned Pretty coming soon(ish) to a tv near you,” she said in the caption.Īccording to Variety, Han has already written the pilot for the series to air on the streaming site Amazon Prime Video. A post shared by Jenny Han think I did it again!” Han lip-synched.