Prime Video has announced the cast for an upcoming book adaptation series.
The streamer unveiled the lineup set to star in the Every Summer After series, based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Carley Fortune.
Saltburn star Sadie Soverall will lead the cast as Percy alongside Matt Cornett (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Summer of 69) as love interest Sam.
Aurora Perrineau (KAOS, Westworld) has been cast as Chantal, Abigail Cowen (Fate: The Winx Saga) will play Delilah, Michael Bradway (Chicago Fire, Marked Men) is set for the role of Charlie and Joseph Chiu (Fear Street: Prom Queen, Motorheads) has been cast as Jordie.
“I couldn’t be more excited about this fabulous cast! This is an enormously talented group of actors, whose auditions made me laugh, swoon and cry. I know they’ll have fans of Every Summer After falling in love with their favorite characters all over again,” Fortune said in a statement.
The series is based on the 2022 book that has sold over one million copies and was a New York Times best-seller for 14 weeks.
Fortune’s romance story is told over the course of six years and highlighting a summer spent in “the quintessential lake town” Barry’s Bay. The story centers on Percy and Sam, who become best friends and embark on a love story. Every Summer After will offer the audience a “romantic, nostalgic story of first loves and the people and choices that mark us forever.”
From left: Aurora Perrineau, Abigail Cowen, Michael Bradway and Joseph Chiu.
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Amy B. Harris will serve as showrunner and executive producer alongside Fortune, Lindsey Liberatore, Amy Rardin, John Stephens and Grace Gilroy as executive producers. Harris, who has an overall deal at Amazon MGM Studios, took over for Leila Gerstein as showrunner after Gerstein exited over “creative differences,” a person with knowledge of the situation told The Hollywood Reporter.
In addition to Every Summer After, Soverall will also lead the fantasy thriller I Am A Monster for Iconoclast, starring alongside Havana Rose Liu. Meanwhile, Cornett’s additional credits include American High’s Summer of 69, the upcoming indie comedy Bad Counselors, Zombies 3, Zombies, Bella and The Bulldogs, Life in Pieces, Game Shakers and Criminal Minds.
Fortune, formerly a journalist and an editor at Canadian publications The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Toronto Life and Refinery29 Canada, has also written the books One Golden Summer, This Summer Will Be Different, Meet Me at the Lake and One Golden Summer.