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Jenny Han to write and direct Summer I Turned Pretty finale film

Published 18 September 2025

Hours after the third and final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty concluded on Amazon Prime Video, the streamer announced it has greenlit a feature-length film to serve as a conclusive chapter to the hit romance drama. Creator and author Jenny Han, who served as co-showrunner on the series, will write and direct the movie, and she said the project is intended to give the protagonist Isabel "Belly" Conklin a proper final milestone.

The 11-episode third season, which wrapped on Sept. 17, 2025, brought Belly, played by Lola Tung, back into a fraught reunion with Conrad Fisher, played by Christopher Briney, in Paris. The finale followed a day of sightseeing, a renewed intimacy and a tense exchange in which Belly briefly pulls away before racing to a train station to stop Conrad from leaving. The two reconcile and are shown later returning to the Fishers' Cousins beach house together, closing the televised love triangle in Conrad's favor. The series did not include the wedding epilogue that concludes Han's third novel, and fans immediately noted the omission.

Han said in a statement, "There is another big milestone left in Belly's journey, and I thought only a movie could give it...

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