New additions to the cast of the upcoming adaptation of Emily Henry‘s bestseller have been announced.
Netflix announced Wednesday that Sarah Catherine Hook, Jameela Jamil, Lucien Laviscount, and Lukas Gage are set to join Tom Blyth and Emily Bader in the feature adaptation of Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation.
Their roles in the film are to be announced.
News of the casting comes amid Blyth and Bader being announced as the romantic leads. My Lady Jane star Bader will portray Poppy while The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes star Blyth will star as Alex. The story will follow the longtime best friends who took one week of every summer vacation together. However, things changed when they stopped speaking for two years. When Poppy reaches out and convinces Alex to take one more vacation together, she sees it as her time to fix their broken relationship. But there’s one unspoken truth they have yet to confront: Are they really just friends or is there more to their relationship?
Brett Haley is set to direct, with Yulin Kuang adapting the screenplay. Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey and Isaac Klausner will produce. Temple Hill’s Laura Quicksilver and Erin Siminoff are overseeing the project for 3000 Pictures.
Hook is set to star in season three of The White Lotus as well as lead Amazon’s series remake of Cruel Intentions. Laviscount recently starred on the fourth season of Netflix’s Emily in Paris, while Gage recently starred in Prime Video’s remake of Road House. Meanwhile, Jamil’s recent credits include She-Hulk.
People We Meet on Vacation is just one of the novels from the Henry book universe getting the adaptation treatment. Four of her novels are in development to become films — Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation, Book Lovers and Funny Story — while her novel, Happy Place is going to be a series on Netflix.
The film is being produced under a partnership in which Sony Pictures will offer Netflix a first look at any films it intends to make for streaming.
Hook is repped at Gersh and Luber Rocklin.
