After The Excellent Couple’s Netflix success, it felt prefer it was solely a matter of time earlier than one other one in all Elin Hilderbrand’s Nantucket-set novels could be picked up. Whereas I used to be holding out hope for the tearjerker that’s 28 Summers, Peacock has determined to go in a special course, and so they’ve enlisted the assistance of Jennifer Garner as well.
The newest information to return down the book-to-screen adaptation pipeline is that Peacock can be making The 5-Star Weekend TV sequence. The e-book is a couple of lady who loses her husband and wishes a weekend away from her grief. So she enlists 5 girls from various eras of her life to return and spend a weekend together with her eating, wining and activity-ing. The e-book has every little thing: recipes, drama, secrets and techniques, lies, good seashores and a lot extra. Hopefully on the small display it can soar.
Garner’s not simply government producing both, although she is an EP (as is Hilderbrand herself). She’ll additionally star within the sequence as Hollis Shaw, the girl internet hosting the “five-star weekend” for her gal buddies. There’s no phrase on different casting, however the entire premise of the e-book is that Ms. Shaw invitations a buddy from her childhood, her twenties, her thirties, her forties and her current to all spend a weekend collectively, and I’m tremendous enthusiastic to search out out what different massive names signal on.
I’d assume given the very fact Peacock has already full greenlighted the challenge to sequence (per Deadline), some fascinating names could also be coming down the pipeline, and hopefully we’ll get particulars about when it is hitting the TV schedule quickly. As soon as we all know a bit extra, these with a Peacock subscription ought to get pumped for the drama and intrigue!
If I had been going to decide on Elin Hilderbrand books to adapt, The 5 Star Weekend could be comparatively excessive on my checklist. (It is definitely juicer than the aforementioned candy and unhappy 28 Summers). As I mentioned earlier than, it wouldn’t be the first e-book I would select, however I’m liking the selection for Garner as an actress and I’m optimistic concerning the forged fleshing out absolutely. When you had been one of many individuals who cherished The Excellent Couple, you already know the setting can be top-notch, too.
Talking of Nantucket, the writer herself allegedly wrapped on books in that setting together with her 2024 novel Swan Track and is seemingly engaged on a YA sequence together with her daughter, however a really giant a part of me hopes she finds one other stretch of seaside to write down about in some unspecified time in the future. Within the meantime, it’s good to see her deliciously devourable novels are discovering some love on the small display. And I am nonetheless holding out fairly a little bit of hope for The Excellent Couple Season 2.