EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Netflix has optioned the YA novel Glad Place by Emily Henry for Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyorican. Plans to adapt the novel as a collection are underway and I perceive producers and streaming executives are at the moment assembly with writers.
The information follows as Lopez’s Netflix film Atlas clears 72.7M world views, one other excessive for the actress and producer after her 2023 film with the streamer, The Mom, which is the ninth most watched film on Netflix with 136.4M. The multihyphenate’s Nuyorican Productions inked a multi-year first-look cope with Netflix spanning characteristic movies, TV collection and unscripted content material again in 2021, with an emphasis on initiatives that help various feminine actors, writers and filmmakers.
Henry is a No. 1 New York Instances and No. 1 Sunday Instances whose novels embody Guide Lovers, Individuals We Meet on Trip, and Seaside Learn.
The Berkley printed Glad Place follows Harriet and Wyn who’ve been an ideal couple since they met in faculty—they go collectively like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Besides, now—for causes they’re nonetheless not discussing—they don’t. They broke up 5 months in the past. And nonetheless haven’t informed their finest mates. They discover themselves sharing a bed room on the Maine cottage that has been their buddy group’s yearly getaway for the final decade, and proceed to lie by way of their enamel to their mates about their relationship standing.
I perceive that Natalie Haack Flores VP of Growth at Nuyorican introduced the initiatives to the producers. Sequence producers shall be Nuyorican’s Lopez, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and Benny Medina.
Lopez is repped by CAA, The Medina Co, and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof and Fishman.
Netflix didn’t return request for remark.