The Summer I Turned Pretty isn’t over quite yet.
After the three-season TV adaptation of Jenny Han’s best-selling young adult romance trilogy came to a climactic end Wednesday, Amazon Prime Video announced the story will continue in a forthcoming movie.
“There is another big milestone left in Belly’s journey, and I thought only a movie could give it its proper due,” Han said at the series’ finale red carpet celebration in Paris, France, per Variety. “I’m so grateful to Prime Video for continuing to support my vision for this story and for making it possible to share this final chapter with the fans.”
While exact plot and casting details have yet to be announced, Han will return to write the film.
*Major series finale spoilers to follow*
The popular series, which follows Isabel “Belly” Conklin (Lola Tung) as she navigates life and a messy love triangle between brothers Conrad (Christopher Briney) and Jeremiah Fisher (Gavin Casalegno), released its final episode on Wednesday.
While much of the show has been based on Han’s books, the final three episodes of the series have kept fans on their toes as they deviated from the original source material.
After high school sweethearts Belly and Jeremiah called off the wedding in the third season’s eighth episode, fans were startled to see Conrad at the airport as Belly made her way to Paris. This plot point marked a major change for readers, as Conrad was never at the airport in the books.
The third book, We’ll Always Have Summer, ends with an epilogue that jumps forward two years and reveals that while abroad, Belly and Conrad reconcile through letters. They later reconnect at Belly’s college graduation and end up getting married.
Though the show follows a similar trajectory — and sees Belly and Conrad end up together — it doesn’t conclude with a wedding, to the disappointment of many viewers.
However, now with the exciting news of The Summer I Turned Pretty the Movie, several fans are eagerly predicting they will finally see Belly and Conrad tie the knot.
“WE ARE GETTING THE WEDDING,” one exclaimed on X. “It better be the wedding and wedding only,” a second agreed, with a third begging: “Give us a wedding please!”
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Another hoped to see more of the romance between Belly’s older brother Steven (Sean Kaufman) and her best friend Taylor (Rain Spencer). “Taylor and Steven’s story better be also very long and detailed!” they commented.
Others hoped it wouldn’t be a long wait until the movie’s release. “And when is this coming out??? We want it now,” someone said, as a second wrote: “You better have already filmed it, I need to see my boy happy for Christ’s sake. Don’t give me summer 2030 bulls***.”
