‘How to End a Love Story’ Author Yulin Kuang on Plans for TV Adaptation of Her Debut Novel and Writing Emily Henry’s ‘Beach Read’ Movie
20.05.2024 - 22:09
/ variety.com
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Yulin Kuang‘s new novel “How to End a Love Story,” which was released April 9. Yulin Kuang was deep into her romance-novel era before she released her own first attempt at the genre, “How to End a Love Story,” last month. The debut author, who has thus far spent her career focused on TV and film writing, actually started penning her book while in the middle of adapting two rom-coms by best-selling author Emily Henry: “Beach Read” (which Kuang will also direct) and “People We Meet on Vacation.” “How to End a Love Story” follows the straight-laced, successful author Helen and charming former jock Grant, who fall in love while working together in a TV writers’ room that is adapting Helen’s YA book series.
And despite the book’s title and the dark high-school history Helen and Grant share surrounding Helen’s little sister’s death when they were teens, Kuang gets them to a happily ever after by the end. Here, Kuang (who created the now-canceled CW series “I Ship It!”) explains to Variety how she’d want to see her own book adapted by Hollywood — including the fact she’d prefer a TV series over a movie (for obvious reasons).
If it gets adapted, would you prefer “How to End a Love Story” as a TV show or a movie? I would only do it as a series. I was talking to an executive friend and she was like, “Why won’t you do this as a movie?” And I was like, “Because I don’t want to have the Act Two in New Jersey.
I want to have the New Jersey episode.” That makes more sense to me. I want the camping episode, the Jersey episode.
But I don’t want the Act Two as camping and New Jersey and then we come back. That doesn’t feel like the promise of our premise,
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