Breaking Down the Biggest Differences Between the ‘Red, White and Royal Blue’ Book and Movie
usmagazine.comLike a lot of book-to-movie adaptations, not everything from the Red, White and Royal Blue novel made it into its film adaptation.Taylor Zakhar Perez and Nicholas Galitzine star as enemies-turned-lovers Alex Claremont-Diaz and Prince Henry, respectively, in the Prime Video rom-com, which premiered on Friday, August 11.
In order to tell the First Son of the United States and Prince of England’s love story properly, director Matthew López explained to Us Weekly that some things from Casey McQuiston’s 2019 novel of the same name had to go.“I watched the movie for the first time at the three-hour version of the movie that I first was given by my editor — and everything that wasn’t Alex and Henry had to go,” he exclusively told Us. “My job as the filmmaker is to deliver Alex and Henry safely on to the end of the film.
There’s about less than 20 seconds of the movie in which either one of them doesn’t appear.”López continued: “When you set for yourself that goal of serving that journey for those two characters, it actually becomes very, very clear what belongs and what doesn’t.”Scroll below to see what parts of the Red, White and Royal Blue novel didn’t make the movie cut: With the story’s main focus on Alex and Henry’s love story, many of the book’s side characters’ roles were toned down in the film.
Secret Service agent Amy (Aneesh Sheth), Henry’s best friend, Percy (Malcolm Atobrah), and Henry’s sister, Princess Beatrice (Ellie Bamber), all had far less prominent roles than their book counterparts.Some characters were seemingly combined with others completely cut from the movie adaptation.
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