Netflix is tripling down on Emily Henry.
The streaming service has acquired the planned film adaptation of the author’s Funny Story, Variety reports, as well as another film based on Happy Place. The acquisitions were announced Thursday, the day before Netflix was set to air the movie adaptation of Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation.
Funny Story, published in 2024, follows Daphne, a librarian whose fiancé, Peter, leaves her for his childhood best friend, Petra; Daphne falls for Miles, Petra’s ex-boyfriend. Henry is writing the screenplay for the film adaptation.
Happy Place, published in 2023, tells the story of Wyn and Harriet, a couple who hide their breakup from their friends while on a vacation in Maine. The adaptation of the novel was originally planned as a television series produced by Jennifer Lopez’s entertainment company but will now be a film.
Two other films based on Henry’s novels are in the works, although not at Netflix, at least for now. Her 2020 novel, Beach Read, is set to be adapted as a movie by director Yulin Kuang, who co-wrote the screenplay for People We Meet on Vacation, while her 2022 novel, Book Lovers, is being turned into a film written by Sarah Heyward (Girls, Nobody Wants This).
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
