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‘Virgin River’ Showrunner On Prequel Status & Taking Page From ‘Bridgerton’ Playbook To Tell Everett & Sarah’s Origin Story
During an interview with Deadline about Season 6 of 'Virgin River', Smith provided a status update on the proposed prequel about Sarah & Everett..
(L to R) Jessica Rothe as Sarah, Callum Kerr as Everett in episode 602 of Virgin River.Courtesy of Netflix Season 6 of Netflix’s popular romantic drama Virgin River, released today, features Mel’s late mother Sarah and biological father, Everett, in flashbacks. As Deadline reported exclusively in February, the storyline is part of an effort to explore a potential prequel that tells the origin story of the two characters, played by Jessica Rothe and Callum Kerr, respectively. “I think if there’s an opportunity to take what Virgin River as a book series was, which was each book was focusing on one couple and expanding the world outside of it, to put Sarah and Everett in the foreground of their own story, while populating, as Virgin River has, the world with supporting characters and other relationships — but all still running it through the romance lens — to me, is what defines a lot of what an expansion of the show and the franchise would be,” Smith said.
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