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The Idea of You Author on the Movie’s New Ending


Robinne Lee says “The book is a book, and the movie is a movie.”

In her book, the romance between single mom Solène and boy band hottie Hayes Campbell ends bittersweetly. But the Prime Video adaptation tacks a “Five Years Later” coda on the film, showing that Hayes and Sol rekindle their relationship once her daughter is in college. “My husband’s a producer on this, and he’s spoken to him, and so he has reported back to me about Michael’s changes, so I know some of the reasons he did things he chose to do.” Ultimately she’s fine with letting both the book and the movie stand on their own.

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