Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s Archewell Productions has optioned Carley Fortune‘s romance novel Meet Me on the Lake with plans to adapt it as a film or TV present.
“The story actually spoke to the Sussexes and has numerous parallels to their very own life,” an insider completely tells Us Weekly. “Harry and Meghan each suppose it’s the right alternative.”
Fortune confirmed the information through Instagram on Monday, August 7. “I’m thrilled to verify that I’m teaming up with Netflix and Archewell Productions on the adaption of Meet Me on the Lake,” the Canadian writer wrote. “Will and Fern’s love story is expensive to my coronary heart, and I can’t think about a extra excellent partnership. Scripting this ebook was an amazing private problem, and to see it acknowledged on this method is actually unimaginable.”
Meet Me on the Lake, revealed by Berkley (a division of Penguin Random Home) in Might, follows 32-year-old Fern Brookbanks as she will get a second probability at love with Will Baxter after she met him on the fallacious time almost a decade earlier. Although they solely spent a day collectively, she couldn’t shake the off-the-charts chemistry they shared, and he comes again into her life almost a decade later when she’s caught operating her mother’s lakeside resort alongside her ex-boyfriend.
The romance novel, Fortune’s second ebook, instantly topped the New York Occasions bestseller listing for print paperback fiction.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will produce an adaptation of Meet Me on the Lake for Netflix as a part of the $100 million deal they signed with the streamer in September 2020. Harry and Meghan — who was an actress previous to her retirement in 2018 — stated on the time that they aimed to make hopeful content material for Netflix.
Carley Fortune, writer of ‘Meet Me on the Lake’. Courtesy of Carley Fortune/Instagram
“Our lives, each unbiased of one another, and as a pair have allowed us to know the ability of the human spirit: of braveness, resilience and the necessity for connection,” the duke and duchess stated. “Via our work with numerous communities and their environments, to shining a lightweight on folks and causes around the globe, our focus will likely be on creating content material that informs but in addition offers hope.”
To date, Archewell Productions has delivered three docuseries for Netflix: Harry & Meghan, which explored their romance and relationship with the royal household; Reside to Lead, which highlighted activists and leaders similar to Greta Thunberg and Gloria Steinem; and Coronary heart of Invictus, which delves into the resilient athletes of Invictus Video games, the aggressive occasion Harry based for navy veterans with life-changing accidents.
Although an animated collection, Pearl, was in improvement, it by no means obtained the inexperienced mild to enter manufacturing. Meet Me on the Lake may very well be the primary scripted undertaking for Archewell.
Their newest deal comes after a supply advised Us earlier this month that the pair had been combating their mild workloads. “There’s not an excessive amount of work proper now for both of them, in order that does trigger some problems with feeling remoted,” one insider stated within the cowl story.
A second supply added that the duo “are regrouping” after a failed Spotify enterprise and no Emmy nomination for Harry & Meghan, noting, “They wish to work out how they will finest develop the leisure aspect of issues.”
Growth of the script probably received’t begin till the Writers Guild of America strike is resolved.
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With reporting by Travis Cronin
