At the time of that signing, Deadline reported that the production company was set to begin work on the Bright sequel and Power, a sci-fi film written by Mattson Tomlin and directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Screen Arcade signed a first-look deal with Netflix in 2018. Along for the Ride won the 2009 Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fiction.īryan Unkeless and Eric Newman ( Bright) will produce Netflix's adaptations of Dessen's novels, as part of their joint venture, Screen Arcade, with creative executive Alyssa Rodrigues set to executive produce. When she spends her first summer with her father and his new family in a beachfront town, Auden meets Eli, an insomniac and loner, who shows her around the town's nightlife. The story centers on Auden, a recent high school graduate, who experiences sleep disturbances in the wake of her parents' divorce. Netflix has optioned Along for the Ride, This Lullaby, and Once and For Allfor adaptation on the platform.Īlong for the Ride will be first of Sarah Dessen's novels to be adapted for Netflix. As The Hollywood Reporter revealed on Thursday, beloved author Sarah Dessen's movie deal with Netflix will bring three fan-favorite novels to the streaming platform's collection of original material. Agent: Leigh Feldman, Leigh Feldman Literary.YA readers are in for a treat. A rich, patient story about a teen girl who craves family and an understanding of her roots after suffering a tragic loss. Dessen takes her time building Emma’s life on the lake, developing each familial relationship from the ground up, and illuminating layers of newness and personal, familial, and class conflict as Emma searches for bits of her past. There, she finds two communities (one working-class, one wealthy), spends time with cousins she didn’t know she had, and meets the handsome boy whose father was once her mother’s best friend-all while hearing stories, seeing photos, and discovering long-held secrets about her mother’s wild teenage years and a single, terrible loss. Years later, unexpected circumstances land Emma, now 17, on the shores of the lake her mother grew up on for a several-week stay with maternal grandmother Mimi. Emma’s mother, who succumbed to an overdose in 2011, left Emma and her father clinging to each other, her father deeply reluctant to discuss Emma’s mother and her family.
Dessen explores her signature themes of family and romance in this layered contemporary novel driven by anxiety-prone protagonist Emma Saylor’s curiosity about her late mother’s life.
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