Spoilers forward for The Summer I Turned Pretty sequence and the e-book We’ll At all times Have Summer. Stream all three seasons in full with an Amazon Prime subscription.
It was a bittersweet second for followers of The Summer I Turned Pretty this week, as Stomach’s love story got here to an finish within the sequence finale. Followers have been left begging for extra after the sequence provided a considerably extra romantic conclusion than the books and Jenny Han offered. Hours after “At Final” hit the 2025 TV schedule, it was introduced {that a} film was on its approach, and after studying what Han needed to say about it, I assume I know what’s coming.
I Suppose The Summer I Turned Pretty Movie Will Take From The Ebook Collection’ Epilogue
It took until the very end of the 80-minute series finale, but at long last, Belly (Lola Tung) reunited with Conrad (Christopher Briney). After the confession every Team Conrad member was waiting for, the series ends with them returning to Cousins together, presumably a year or two later. Based on Jenny Han’s comments to EW a couple of “large milestone” left in Stomach’s journey, my concept is that the film will cowl the occasions of We’ll At all times Have Summer’s epilogue. In different phrases, I assume we’re going to a marriage! Han stated:
As I was fascinated with third season, I actually felt that the journey was a lot about Stomach’s coming of age and to be able to totally inform that story, we have to get to her reunion with Conrad. After which it could’ve been like a fast tacked-on beat on the finish to get to any of the stuff within the epilogue within the e-book.
Jenny Han took her time getting Stomach and Conrad again collectively, and we solely received restricted time on the finish of the episode after they have been actually again collectively. To squeeze in what she wrote within the third e-book’s epilogue would have achieved a disservice to the literal years which have been constructing to it. Han continued:
And I simply actually needed to present its due. And we had additionally been by means of a complete season of Stomach and Jeremiah’s [Gavin Casalegno] marriage ceremony and I needed to have house for regardless of the subsequent step is.
I agree that that is the best transfer, as a result of it was so essential for the book-to-screen adaptation to present a lot house to Stomach’s journey post-Jeremiah. The finale confirmed how she actually discovered herself after shifting to Paris, the place she not outlined herself as being destined for one in all Susannah’s boys.
What Occurs In We’ll At all times Have Summer’s Epilogue?
Talking of Susannah Fisher, the epilogue from the third e-book in Jenny Han’s YA sequence opens with the letter she wrote to Stomach earlier than she died that was to be opened on her marriage ceremony day. The letter was launched within the sequence in Season 3, however whereas we noticed what was written in Susannah’s letter to Jeremiah (yikes, I imply Conrad!), we didn’t see Stomach open her letter, which was an enormous omission. I assume we might get that in The Summer I Turned Pretty film.
The remainder of the epilogue takes place within the moments after Stomach and Conrad say “I do,” with Jeremiah giving Stomach a small wave as she jumps right into a automotive with Conrad to get out of the rain. She blows him a kiss, and he smiles as he turns again to his date (Denise???). The newlyweds then drive to the seashore, the place they run — already moist from the rain — into the ocean, gleefully beginning their lives collectively.
May this be the place Jenny Han takes us with the plot of the upcoming film? I assume there’s a more-than-decent probability. We’ve lastly gotten Stomach and Conrad collectively for good, so we must always get 90 minutes or so to take pleasure in that “large milestone” with them, proper?
A marriage ceremony additionally gives a terrific excuse to get the entire gang again collectively — together with fan-favorite couple Taylor and Steven (Rain Spencer and Sean Kaufman, respectively) and, in fact, Gavin Casalegno’s Jeremiah. I was just a little dissatisfied we didn’t get to see the Fisher brothers come again collectively in the long run, however hey, that is what the film’s for.
In fact, I may very well be fallacious. Nonetheless, Han particularly mentioning the e-book’s epilogue has me pondering I’m heading in the right direction.
We nonetheless have some time to attend earlier than we’ll see The Summer I Turned Pretty film, as Jenny Han stated they’re nonetheless within the early phases, however I gained’t thoughts taking that point to reread the books, rewatch the sequence on Prime Video, and theorize about all of the Taylor Swift songs they might use in it!
