This text incorporates spoilers for the Season 3 finale of “The Summer season I Turned Fairly.”
Isabel “Stomach” Conklin and Conrad Fisher had a très romantique reunion in Paris within the extremely anticipated collection finale of “The Summer season I Turned Fairly” this week — however that’s not the top of their love story.
Hours after Prime Video dropped the collection finale of the hit present on Wednesday, the streamer introduced a function movie continuation to be written and directed by creator, creator and co-showrunner Jenny Han.
“There may be one other large milestone left in Stomach’s journey, and I assumed solely a film may give it its correct due,” Han stated in a press launch. The shock announcement was made through the purple carpet finale premiere within the Metropolis of Love, with Han and the celebs of the collection, together with Lola Tung, Christopher Briney and Gavin Casalegno, in attendance.
Story and manufacturing particulars for the untitled “Summer season I Turned Fairly” film are below wraps, as is the discharge date. However followers of Han’s bestselling e-book collection of the identical title have already guessed which main milestone a “Summer season” film is more likely to reveal: Stomach’s wedding ceremony to Conrad.
The marriage, an final joyful ending for the couple after their tumultuous three-season journey of old flame and heartbreak, was initially revealed within the epilogue of Han’s third “Summer season” novel, “We’ll At all times Have Summer season.” Curiously for the collection, through which Han has proven meticulous artistic management with well-curated e-book moments, music and visible particulars, Stomach and Conrad’s onscreen love story involves an open-ended conclusion after they return collectively to the Cousins summer time home, with Stomach narrating an ambiguous ahead leap in time.
Moreover, a credit montage titled “Christmas in Paris” reveals snapshots of them spending the vacation collectively and an onscreen letter from Han thanking followers that seems to open the door to extra of Stomach and Conrad’s story: “Possibly we’ll meet once more one summer time in Cousins.”
Stomach and Conrad’s onscreen love story involves an open-ended conclusion after they return collectively to the Cousins summer time home within the collection finale.
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The ultimate three episodes of the worldwide hit collection develop on the e-book’s epilogue, switching the setting from Spain to Paris, the place Stomach (Tung) finishes faculty overseas after a love confession from Conrad (Briney) upends her would-be nuptials to his brother, Jeremiah (Casalegno). The penultimate episode included the handwritten letters from the e-book that Conrad begins sending Stomach throughout their time aside, resulting in their eventual romantic reconnection.
Within the 79-minute collection finale, written by Han and co-showrunner Sarah Kucserka and directed by Jesse Peretz, Conrad arrives in Paris a yr later to shock Stomach on her birthday. They clear the air and rekindle their spark throughout a “Earlier than Dawn”-esque day collectively. A passionate night time is adopted by a tearful goodbye, an emotional revelation, a dramatic sprint to the practice station, and the return of the infinity necklace that has symbolized their love since Season 1.
The episode additionally checks in on the oldsters again house in Cousins, together with Steven (Sean Kaufman) and Taylor (Rain Spencer), who’re navigating the following steps of their very own relationship, and Jeremiah, now an up-and-coming chef, who has moved on from his breakup with Stomach and is forging a romantic reference to former co-worker Denise (Isabella Briggs).
After watching the finale, some followers on social media felt that Stomach and Conrad’s love story was incomplete, desirous to see extra of the couple collectively, and that it missed e-book moments like their wedding ceremony, closure for different characters, and a reunion of the entire Cousins crew.
Avid followers had already begun poring over the episode for hints of extra “Summer season” to return. Eagle-eyed viewers like TikTok creator @bookbeedani famous that the numbers “12” and “14” showing all through the episodes and vacation hints, together with a purple and inexperienced costume worn by Han in a promo revealing the finale title, assist hypothesis {that a} Dec. 14 Christmas particular could be within the works.
These particulars may trace at what’s to return in a “Summer season” function movie, together with what we didn’t see within the collection finale, just like the letter Susannah wrote to Stomach earlier than her dying, a “Bonrad” wedding ceremony — and first dance to “Keep” by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs — and a ultimate scene with the pair on the seashore that has been witness to a number of of their necessary moments collectively.
“I’m undoubtedly open to doing extra tales within the universe,” Han instructed The Occasions in an interview forward of the finale. The movie, which is able to mark Han’s function directorial debut after making her first foray into directing with a Season 3 episode instructed from Conrad’s perspective, may additionally tie up free ends or tee up spin-off potential for different beloved characters, together with Steven and Taylor in California; Laurel, John and Adam on that singles cruise; or Jeremiah and Denise in … love?
