Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s Archewell Productions has optioned Carley Fortune‘s romance novel Meet Me at the Lake with plans to adapt it as a movie or TV show. “The story really spoke to the Sussexes and has a lot of parallels to their own life,” an insider exclusively tells Us Weekly. “Harry and Meghan both think it’s the perfect choice.”Fortune confirmed the news via Instagram on Monday, August 7. “I’m thrilled to confirm that I’m teaming up with Netflix and Archewell Productions on the adaption of Meet Me at the Lake,” the Canadian author wrote. “Will and Fern’s love story is dear to my heart, and I can’t imagine a more perfect partnership.
Writing this book was a tremendous personal challenge, and to see it recognized in this way is truly incredible.”Meet Me at the Lake, published by Berkley (a division of Penguin Random House) in May, follows 32-year-old Fern Brookbanks as she gets a second chance at love with Will Baxter after she met him at the wrong time nearly a decade earlier.
Though they only spent a day together, she couldn’t shake the off-the-charts chemistry they shared, and he comes back into her life nearly a decade later when she’s stuck running her mom’s lakeside resort alongside her ex-boyfriend.The romance novel, Fortune’s second book, immediately topped the New York Times bestseller list for print paperback fiction.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will produce an adaptation of Meet Me at the Lake for Netflix as part of the $100 million deal they signed with the streamer in September 2020.
Harry and Meghan — who was an actress prior to her retirement in 2018 — said at the time that they aimed to make hopeful content for Netflix.“Our lives, both independent of each other, and as a couple have
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