As “The Summer time I Turned Fairly” followers eagerly await the upcoming film to conclude Jenny Han’s beloved YA story, Han revealed Tuesday that the script for the movie is completed.
“[I] simply wrote it,” Han mentioned throughout TheWrap’s 2025 Energy Girls Summit, introduced by STARZ #TakeTheLead. “Now we have not filmed something but. I do know that everybody hoped that it was popping out this Christmas, however sadly, not taking place, not doable.”
Han famous that as a result of the third and closing season, which concluded this fall, consisted of 11 episodes, in comparison with the shorter seven and eight-episode first seasons, she was deep in filming for many of 2024 and was in post-production till June this 12 months. “The present got here out in July,” she famous. “So it was actually as much as the final minute on the present, in order that we wouldn’t have had time to movie the entire film.”
For the film, which is imagined to middle on Stomach and Conrad’s marriage ceremony, Han will make her characteristic directorial debut after making her TV directorial debut throughout Season 3 in a shift Han known as “pure and very easy” after working with the forged and crew for years. “I liked each single a part of it,” Han mentioned. “To me, it’s simply one other extension of storytelling. I’m actually excited to do the film as nicely, simply because … it’s a privilege … to be the one to inform the story.”
As Han prepares to direct the movie, she pointed to rom-com legend Nora Ephron as an inspiration, noting “I miss these” and highlighting basic romantic comedies like “Sleepless in Seattle,” “You’ve Obtained Mail” and “Bridget Jones’s Diary.” “I’m having a variety of enjoyable proper now, simply pondering and planning,” Han mentioned.
When requested if Han would possibly flip again to her past love, novel writing, she responded, “I wish to, I’m simply busy,” noting that showrunning “The Summer time I Turned Fairly” over its three seasons has been a “12-month-out-of-the-year job,” which she admitted she didn’t understand it might be till she did it.
“We’d begin the writers’ room in January, then we’d begin filming, and often was like July,” she defined. “And you then’re in submit, and [the] cycle continues … so I haven’t had a second to have the ability to sit down and write a e book.”
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With “All the time and Perpetually, Lara Jean,” the final e book within the “To All of the Boys I’ve Beloved” trilogy standing because the final e book Han wrote, the writer famous that writing a e book requires a vastly totally different headspace.
“Once I sit down for a e book, I’m … [in an] virtually meditative state the place I’d have to enter a movement, and I’m not in a position to sit there and do a zoom with casting [or] our manufacturing designer, that sort of factor in the course of the day,” she mentioned. “It takes me some time to get into … virtually like a trance-like state to sink in to the story, and I can’t pull out and in of that simply. That’s why I haven’t been in a position to sit down and write a brand new e book. And it often takes me a 12 months to jot down a e book.”
Past the film, the author-turned-showrunner and director famous that she has a few books she’s been engaged on for years, in addition to a “couple of different motion pictures” and “a few reveals” which might be all in her upcoming pipeline.
“I want to get all of it executed,” Han joked. “It’s actually a matter of what comes first and when after which in what format, as a result of I believe that tales are all totally different and distinctive, and never each story is supposed to be a film or TV present — I believe some issues perhaps are higher simply as a e book too, so it’s sort of like selecting what and when and making time for that, however I’m gonna be actually busy.”
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