Like Parental Guidance, and-most relevant to our interests-the About the change, Lauren Billings told Entertainment Weekly: “Christina and I and all of the producers felt like the issue of immigration is one we needed to be facing head-on with this story, and we had an opportunity and responsibility to do that.” Christina added that “It was the way needed to be told.” For more, read the whole EW article. Instead, Christina and Lauren have reimagined the character as a Latino immigrant named Mateo Perez. In the movie, Holland’s hero will no longer be Irishman Calvin McLoughlin. For more insight into how Dewan discovered Roomies and their experience writing the script, read this Hypable Q&A with Christina and Lauren.
This may be the best news yet, because no one could bring these characters to life quite like their creators, Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the writing duo known as Christina Lauren. Then come back and obsess over every tidbit ofĭewan’s company Everheart Productions is producing the Roomies film!Īs a longtime lover of both & rom coms, I’m especially excited to bring their book #Roomies to life with this super fun team! /HbYxo1xeIJĭare we hope Jenna Dewan will also play a starring role as heroine Holland Bakker? Her dynamite Step Up and Lip Sync Battle performances leave little doubt that she’d absolutely crush the part and steal our hearts. (And if you haven’t already read Roomies but swooned over movies likeĪll the Boys I’ve Loved Before-which is itself based on a fab book-andĬopy, because you will ADORE it. I mean, come on: A modern-day marriage of convenience between two beautiful, witty people destined to fall in love against the backdrop of a Broadway musical in New York City? Hollywood was bound to sit up and take notice-AND THEY DID: In May 2018, news broke that a film adaptation of the bestselling novel is officially in the works!įor a roundup of everything we know about the Roomies movie so far and check back here for more updates as we get It’s a truth universally acknowledged that Christina Lauren’s delightful rom-com novel Roomies would make a perfect movie.
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