{"id":2029725,"date":"2025-09-17T20:10:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2029725"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:10:24","slug":"story-to-continue-after-season-3-finale-with-a-film-written-and-directed-by-jenny-han","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/story-to-continue-after-season-3-finale-with-a-film-written-and-directed-by-jenny-han\/","title":{"rendered":"Story to continue after Season 3 finale with a film written and directed by Jenny Han"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Looks like it isn\u2019t ending after all: <em>The Summer I Turned Pretty <\/em>movie is on the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the series\u2019 finale red carpet celebration in Paris on Wednesday, Jenny Han, the show\u2019s creator, announced that a feature-length film is in the works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThere is another big milestone left in Belly\u2019s journey, and I thought only a movie could give it its proper due,\u201d Han said. \u201cI\u2019m so grateful to Prime <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/streaming\/review\/amazon-prime-video-review-132835305.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Video;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Video<\/a> for continuing to support my vision for this story and for making it possible to share this final chapter with the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Prime Video, the distributor of the hit coming-of-age series, which premiered in 2022, greenlighted the movie installation to conclude the show\u2019s three-season run. Han, who also penned the trilogy of books on which the show is based, is set to write and direct the upcoming film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201c\u2018The Summer I Turned Pretty\u2019 has struck a chord with audiences everywhere, creating moments of joy, nostalgia, and connection that have made it a global sensation,\u201d Courtenay Valenti, head of film, streaming and theatrical at Amazon MGM Studios, and Vernon Sanders, Global Head of Television, at Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, said in a joint statement. \u201cWe\u2019re proud of the series\u2019 extraordinary success and couldn\u2019t be more excited to partner again with Jenny Han to bring fans an unforgettable next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Season 3 finale, which was presumed to be the final episode and installment of the series, was released on Prime Video at midnight on Wednesday. While fans were satisfied with the outcome between Belly (Lola Tung) and Conrad (Chris Briney), many who have read the books felt that some of the major plot points were overlooked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While Han hasn\u2019t confirmed outright, it\u2019s likely that the film will focus on Belly and Conrad\u2019s wedding, which happens at the end of the final book, <em>We\u2019ll Always Have Summer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like it isn\u2019t ending after all: The Summer I Turned Pretty movie is on the way. During the series\u2019 finale red carpet celebration in Paris on Wednesday, Jenny Han, the show\u2019s creator, announced that a feature-length film is in the works. \u201cThere is another big milestone left in Belly\u2019s journey, and I thought only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2029726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[362496,338843,66105],"class_list":["post-2029725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-feature-length-film","tag-jenny-han","tag-prime-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Story-to-continue-after-Season-3-finale-with-a-film.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}