Famous Jenny Han wants more young adult projects that aren’t dystopian nightmares | Clusterdam
Famous Jenny Han wants more young adult
What?! Season 1 isn’t even out yet and now we’re getting news that #TheSummerITurnedPretty is renewed for season 2?!!! SO DESERVED! Congratulations @jennyhan and to everyone in the team! ❤️ @thesummeritp pic.twitter.com/GLngq4Vlfk
— Jenny Han Feels (@JennyHanFeels) June 8, 2022
The film adaptation of "The Hunger Games" went into production two months before Jenny Han's young adult novel "The Summer I Turned Pretty" entered bookstores in 2009, producing about $700 million at the global box office three years later.
Despite their immense success, Han does not want to write another "Hunger Games," "Divergent," or even "Twilight." "It wasn't often that you came across a trilogy that told a realistic, modern story. It was either dystopian or fantasy, such as vampires. "Really life-or-death stakes," Han told the Daily News, who also wrote the bestselling trilogy "To All The Boys." "I enjoy telling stories that are both realistic and hopeful and warmhearted."
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There are no dragons or vampires in Han's young adult novels, which are geared for readers aged 12 to 18. They do, however, have the same adolescent issues of love, sorrow, and growth.
After a series of setbacks, Han's TV version of "The Summer I Turned Pretty," which premiered on Prime Video on Friday, came at a good time. She now has the opportunity to create her own television programme about adolescent love and summers that exist outside of time and reality.
The youths in "The Summer I Turned Pretty," like those in "To All The Boys," are captivated by their lives. Every sly glance across the beach is the world's most crucial eye contact. At the ice cream parlour, every brush of the shoulders is the most electrifying touch in history. Those feelings have been dismissed as juvenile and insignificant in the history of young adult content. YA books, shows, and films are for naughty girls. Han isn't one of them. "Everything they're feeling is just as meaningful and relevant to them as it is to an adult." "It's all relative to the scale of experience," she explained to The News.
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Her “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” series was adapted into a movie trilogy |
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