“Our mission at Frolic is to tell great love stories, and we are thrilled to be working with our partners at BCDF to bring Bailey’s swoon-worthy novel to life,” said Berger.īCDF Pictures 2022 productions include female trucker movie Big Rig, starring Vanessa Hudgens The Ploughmen, directed by Ed Harris Which Brings Me to You, starring Lucy Hale 2022 SXSW title To Leslie, starring Andrea Riseborough and Allison Janney an adaptation of Gabrielle Zevin’s International Bestseller The Storied Life of A.J. “We are excited to be continuing our journey into wonderful romantic comedy adaptations,” said BCDF’s Dal Farra. I’m thrilled and honored that BCDF Pictures and Frolic Media want to make this happen!” Muszynski most recently adapted Christina Lauren’s New York Times bestselling romantic comedy novel The Unhoneymooners for BCDF.īailey said, “From this moment on, I am living to see Brendan and Piper brought to life on screen. Mengert recently adapted romantic comedy The Hating Game for BCDF, which reached #3 on the iTunes Top Movie Rentals Chart (behind No Time to Die and Venom: Let There Be Carnage), and was #1 on the iTunes Independent Movie Rental Chart for six consecutive weeks. The novel has been on the USA Today bestseller list for the last 10 weeks and has received starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus and has been named a “Must-Read” by Bustle, BuzzFeed, PopSugar, CNN, Vulture, PARADE, Country Living, USA Today, and Entertainment Weekly. Truly a fish out of water, Piper must grapple with her newfound feelings–about Brendan, the town, her past and her hopes for the future.īCDF Pictures Developing 'The Spanish Love Deception' Film 'The Hating Game's Peter Hutchings Tapped To Adapt Elena Armas Bestseller The story turns the classic ‘It Girl’ trope on its head as fun and fashionable socialite Piper clashes with gruff local fisherman Brendan to swoon-worthy results. It Happened One Summer follows a Hollywood ‘It Girl,’ who is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong. BCDF’s Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady will produce alongside Lisa Berger from Frolic. Christina Mengert (The Hating Game) and Joseph Muszynski (The Unhoneymooners) have adapted the book.

It has also been a TikTok sensation with a hashtag with over 35 million views. The book is the first installment in Bailey’s #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling Bellinger Sisters series. EXCLUSIVE: BCDF Pictures and Frolic Media are set to produce a feature adaptation of New York Times best-selling author Tessa Bailey’s bestselling romantic comedy novel It Happened One Summer.

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