Following its large success with Pink, White & Royal Blue, the difference of Casey McQuiston’s bestseller, which final yr got here in as considered one of its high three most-watched romantic comedies of all time, Amazon MGM Studios has greenlighted growth on a sequel, with stars Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez set to return.
After making his characteristic debut with the primary movie, Matthew López has returned to put in writing the script for the sequel — this time, alongside McQuiston. Berlanti Schechter Movies’ Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter will return to supply the movie, joined by the banner’s Michael McGrath, in addition to López. McQuiston will government produce.
Launched final August, Pink, White & Royal Blue follows Alex Claremont-Diaz (Perez), who upon his mom’s (Uma Thurman) election as President, is promptly solid because the American equal of a younger royal. Good-looking, charismatic, good — his picture is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White Home. There’s just one drawback: Alex has a long-running feud along with his royal counterpart throughout the pond, Prince Henry (Galitzine). And when the tabloids pay money for a photograph involving an altercation between the 2, U.S./British relations take a flip for the more serious.
Heads of household, state, and different handlers devise a plan for injury management: staging a truce between the 2 rivals. What at first begins as a pretend, Instagramable friendship grows into one thing extra significant than both Alex or Henry may have imagined. Quickly Alex finds himself hurtling right into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that might complicate his mom’s re-election marketing campaign and upend two nations, and begs the query: Can love save the world in any case?
Particulars as to the sequel’s plot are beneath wraps. Information of its growth was introduced throughout a Q&A tonight following a screening of the movie on the Culver Theater, which got here forward of Amazon’s inaugural upfront presentation, scheduled for Might 14.
The highest-watched movie worldwide for Amazon in its first three weeks of launch, Pink, White & Royal Blue was additionally stated to have generated “an enormous surge” in subscribers for the streaming platform, per a spokesperson.
A star on the rise, Galitzine can at the moment be seen starring reverse Anne Hathaway in Prime Video’s rom-com The Thought of You. He additionally stars reverse Julianne Moore and Tony Curran in Starz’s historic drama Mary & George.
Additionally a carefully watched up-and-comer, Perez has additionally been seen in The Kissing Sales space movies, Starz’s Minx and different initiatives.
Galitzine is repped by Curtis Brown Group, WME, Nameless Content material, Gang, Tyre, Ramer, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; Perez by Paradigm, Principal Leisure LA, and Felker Toczek Suddleson; López by CAA, Brillstein Leisure Companions, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer; and McQuiston by KT Literary, UTA, and Alexander, Lawrence, Frumes & Labowitz.
