Casey McQuiston’s successful novel already has its main characters in the flesh: Taylor Zakhar Pérez and Nicholas Galitzine.
The successful novel ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ will have an adaptation on Amazon Prime Video, and we already know who the protagonists will be. platform streaming LGTBIQ+ Pride month has begun by giving us details of this long-awaited film that uses the topic of enemies-to-lovers (from enemies to lovers) to tell an impossible love story between an English prince and the son of the president of the United States.
Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Pérez will star in the film based on the best-selling novel by Casey McQuiston. Galitzine repeats on Amazon Prime Video after playing another prince, that of Camila Cabello’s ‘Cinderella’ released in 2021, and we also saw him in the remake of Blumhouse’s ‘Young Boys and Witches’. For his part, Zakhar Pérez has appeared in Netflix’s ‘My First Kiss’ saga alongside Joey King and Jacob Elordi, and more recently we have seen him as a secondary in HBO Max’s ‘Minx’ series, one of the best series on Netflix. 2022. Both will have to find the necessary chemistry to bring McQuiston’s story to life, which has fans around the world.
The story follows Mexican-American Alex Claremont-Díaz (Zakhar Pérez), whose life is turned upside down when his mother is elected President of the United States. He will soon become a media sensation thanks to his looks, his charisma and his intelligence, but There’s a problem: Alex has a long-running feud with his royal counterpart across the pond, Prince Henry (Galitzine)..
When the tabloid press manages to take a picture of them in the middle of a fight, relations between the United States and the United Kingdom are in danger. For this reason, both States devise a plan to control the situation: fabricate a false friendship between the two, well publicized on Instagram, to end the conflict. However, what they did not expect is that feelings stronger than hatred would arise between them. Can love triumph with two nations on the edge of the precipice and an avalanche of public responsibilities that they cannot turn their backs on?
‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ also stars Clifton Collins Jr (‘Westworld’), Stephen Fry (recently seen on the Disney+ series ‘The Dropout’), Sarah Shahi (seen on ‘Sex/Life’, one of the best erotic series on Netflix), Rachel Hilson (‘Time of victory: The Lakers dynasty’), Ellie Bamber (‘The Serpent’), Aneesh Sheth (‘Jake’), Polo Morin (‘Who killed Sara?’), Ahmed Elhaj (‘Dangerous Liaisons’) and Akshay Khanna (‘Polite Society’). Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter of Berlanti/Schechter Films will produce the film, with Michael McGrath serving as executive producer. The film will be directed by Matthew López, a playwright making his directorial debut after his play ‘The Inheritance’, released in 2018, was described as “the most important American play of the century”. It will be necessary to see if the cinema is so good.
A New York Times and USA Today bestseller, McQuiston’s ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ was a Goodreads Choice Award winner for Best Debut and Best Romance of 2019. It was also named Best Book of the Year by Vogue, NPR and Vanity. Fair, among others. “It’s been amazing to deliver this story to Berlanti/Schechter, Amazon and our lead Matthew Lopez, and see how they made the right decisions to bring it to life”the author said in a statement. “The casting is also not far behind. I’m really looking forward to seeing Taylor and Nicholas on screen playing Alex and Henry”.
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