Amy B. Harris, the showrunner for Amazon’s Prime Video collection The Wilds, is grabbing the reins for the platform’s Every Summer After adaptation, titled Each Yr After, The Hollywood Reporter has realized. Harris, who has an general deal at Amazon MGM Studios, will take over for Leila Gerstein as Each Yr After showrunner; Gerstein has exited over “artistic variations,” an individual with information of the scenario mentioned.
Reps for Gerstein didn’t instantly reply to THR’s request for remark.
Each Yr After relies on the New York Instances-bestselling novel Each Summer time After by Carley Fortune. The story is advised over the course of six years and per week within the (actual) quintessential lake city Barry’s Bay.
“It’s a romantic, nostalgic story of first loves and the individuals and selections that mark us endlessly,” Amazon says. Barry’s Bay is in rural Ontario, the place Fortune spent a lot of her youth.
Underneath her general deal, Harris develops and supervises (and typically showruns) new adaptation initiatives throughout all genres. Along with The Wilds, Harris additionally developed and govt produced The Carrie Diaries (the Intercourse and the Metropolis prequel collection), and wrote and produced on the OG Intercourse and the Metropolis. Extra credit additionally embrace The Comeback, Gossip Lady and Designated Survivor.
Fortune additionally govt produces the difference of her novel, as will Lindsey Liberatore, Amy Rardin and John Stephens; Gerstein is not listed among the many EPs. Fortune has additionally written the books One Golden Summer time, This Summer time Will Be Completely different, Meet Me on the Lake and Each Summer time After — a complete lot of summer time/lake fare, although none of these novels are intertwined. Which will change, nonetheless, with Fortune’s fifth e-book, which she is at the moment writing. A theoretical second season of Each Yr After could also be pulled from the forthcoming (and at the moment untitled) novel. May we recommend… Each Yr After?
Each Summer time After has offered multiple million copies and is large on BookTok; it was a New York Instances Bestseller for 14 weeks.
Earlier than turning into a novelist, Fortune was a journalist and and an editor at Canadian publications The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Toronto Life and Refinery29 Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan College.