Avid fans of Prime Video‘s The Summer I Turned Pretty and Jenny Han‘s books upon which the show is based have less than 10 days until Season 3’s premiere on the streamer, and the author and showrunner hinted that certain highly anticipated scenes from the books may play out a little differently than the way she wrote them.
In Han’s words in an interview with People, even the most beloved scenes in her third book We’ll Always Have Summer that fans are most looking forward to “might not always happen in the way that [they]’re expecting.”
Seasons 1 and 2 of the television series underwent their own changes, big ones being the addition of the whole debutante ball in Season 1 as a backdrop and also the addition of Kyra Sedgwick’s Aunt Julia and Elsie Fisher’s Skye in Season 2’s main plot of the Cousins Beach House almost getting sold.
“There are a couple of moments that people really love from the books that I knew that people were wanting to see,” Han said. “I wanted to make sure that I was going to really service those fans who’ve been following the story for a really long time.”
In an exclusive cover story published in March, Entertainment Weekly confirmed that Christopher Briney will narrate an episode as Conrad. Conrad gets several chapters told from his perspective in Han’s third book. This happened in Season 2 with Gavin Casalegno’s Jeremiah getting voiceover parts in Episode 5, titled “Love Fool.” Jeremiah has chapters told from his point of view in Han’s second book, It’s Not Summer Without You.’
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“There are changes,” Han warned in the EW interview. “There are surprises. And there are things that aren’t exactly like the books.”
Briney emphasized that those who think they know how the series ends in terms of which brother Belly ultimately chooses in the love triangle have not read the scripts. He also spoke to EW briefly about returning to set to film one of his first scenes as Conrad solo that isn’t in the book.
Conrad (Christopher Briney) in The Summer I Turned Pretty
Some scenes in the books are even reshuffled in the show, with a key scene between Belly and Conrad on the boardwalk when they were young from the first book showing up in Season 2.
The author also expressed that her main goal with the final season is for fans to “feel like they have been on a really fun journey with these characters and gotten to see them grow up on-screen.”
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