A release date has been announced for Netflix’s adaptation of Emily Henry’s bestselling novel, People We Meet on Vacation.
On Tuesday the streamer released a teaser of the film in which voiceovers of stars Emily Bader and Tom Blyth are overheard with a beach backdrop.
“Where does Alex Nilsen stand on travel? Love or hate?” Bader’s Poppy says.
“I mean, I’ve never really traveled anywhere. But this morning I saw this beautiful sunrise over this place that i’d never been before and I wouldn’t have if everything had gone according to plan. So love. I’m thinking love,” Blyth’s Alex says.
The film will premiere on Netflix Jan. 9, 2026.
The story centers on longtime best friends Alex and Poppy who for the past decade have taken one week of summer vacation together. That is until they stopped speaking. When Poppy reaches out and convinces Alex to take one more vacation together, she sees it as her time to fix their broken relationship. However, there’s just one unspoken truth they have yet to confront. In the 2021 novel, Henry chronicles a slow-burn, friends-to-lovers romance with lots of fun travels.
Blyth (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes) stars as Alex while Bader (My Lady Jane) plays Poppy. Sarah Catherine Hook, Jameela Jamil, Lucien Laviscount, and Lukas Gage also star. Miles Heizer, Tommy Do, Alice Lee, Alan Ruck and Molly Shannon round out the cast.
Brett Haley directs with a screenplay from Yulin Kuang. Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey and Isaac Klausner produce. Temple Hill’s Laura Quicksilver and Erin Siminoff are overseeing the project for 3000 Pictures.
Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation was published in 2021 by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House, debuting No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and having sold more than 2 million copies in the U.S.
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.
