You don’t have to attend without end for the following Judy Blume adaptation: Ceaselessly premiered on Netflix on Thursday, Might 8.
Developed by Mara Brock Akil, Ceaselessly reimagines Blume’s 1975 of the identical title, telling the love story of two Black teenagers, performed by Lovie Simone and Michael Cooper Jr., who discover romance and their identities by means of the awkward journey of being one another’s firsts in Los Angeles in 2018.
“I’m thrilled that Mara has chosen to inform this story by means of her personal lens,” Blume instructed Tudum. “It’s gratifying to know that, 50 years after its launch, the love story on the core of Ceaselessly remains to be resonating with audiences.”
In fact, Blume’s tales have been resonating with TV and movie audiences for many years now. A TV film based mostly on Ceaselessly aired in 1978, starring Stephanie Zimbalist and Dean Butler. An adaptation of In any other case Generally known as Sheila the Nice aired as a part of ABC Weekend Specials in 1991. The kids’s TV present Fudge, based mostly on Blume’s Fudge e book sequence, hit ABC in 1995. And Tiger Eyes turned a film in 2012, adopted by Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret in 2023.
Nonetheless, a lot of Blume’s tales are on the market simply ready for variations. Right here’s a sampling — and, shock, shock, they’re not all youngsters’s books.
Ceaselessly, Streaming Now, Netflix