Emily Henry's People We Meet On Vacation finds its stars, and more casting news of the week

The first Emily Henry adaptation is starting to take shape. Tom Blyth (The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes) and Emily Bader (My Lady Jane) are set to star in People We Meet On Vacation, which will be heading to Netflix, per The Hollywood Reporter. The story follows two friends who spend one week together on vacation every summer; however, tensions arise when they go two years without talking. Yulin Kuang will be crafting the screenplay. 

The romance—like all the works of Henry—is a favorite of the BookTok set. One of her other novels in development for the screen, Beach Read, has already been the subject of rumors/wishful thinking that Ayo Edebiri and Paul Mescal would star. The A.V. Club’s Mary Kate Carr asked Kuang about these rumblings back in April, who said they “are not having those conversations yet.” Maybe with Blyth and Bader in the bag, it’ll be time to have those conversations soon. 

Check out our roundup of the rest of the week’s casting news below.

• ••Rachel Brosnahan, Rhys Coiro, Ariana DeBose, Peter Dinklage, Stephen Dorff, Danny Huston, Matthew Jacobs, Ted Levine, Chris Messina, and LaKeith Stanfield have all joined Lear Rex. Jessica Chastain and Al Pacino were previously announced to star in the King Lear adaptation.
• •Modern Family alum Eric Stonestreet will lead Home Team at Prime Video. Produced in part by Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions, the story is described as a warm comedy taking place as a son moves his father into a retirement home. [via Deadline]
• •Matt Berry and Gabriel Leone have joined the presumably extremely expensive second season of Citadel in unspecified roles. [via Deadline]
• ••Holt McCallany (The Iron Claw) will star in Netflix series The Waterfront, written by Scream scribe Kevin Williamson. The series will follow a family struggling to keep their North Carolina fishing empire afloat—and the dire places they go in the process. [via Deadline]
• •Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are reuniting to bring Waiting For Godot back to Broadway.
• •Danny Ramirez will team with Jeremy O. Harris and star in Pursuit Of Touch, the story of a reclusive veteran who falls in love with a cam girl and sets out to save her after believing she is involved in a conspiracy.
• •Courtney Thorne Smith and Stella Gregg will lead the perfectly-titled Lifetime movie He Slid Into Her DMs. Based on a true story, the early plot description sounds like a classic mother-gets-violently-involved-in-teenage-daughter’s-life narrative. You know, one of those. [via Deadline]
• •Belmont Capelli, Maia Mitchell, and Peter Stormare have all joined the cast of Sony’s Until Dawn adaptation. We’re pretty excited. [via The Hollywood Reporter]
• •KaDee Strickland is joining Chicago Fire as Monica Pascal, the estranged wife of Dermot Mulroney’s Fire Chief Dom Pascal. Recurring cast member Jack Lockett has also been upgraded to series regular for the forthcoming 13th season. [via Deadline]
• •Elsewhere on the coast of Lake Michigan, Toya Turner has been cast as Officer Yara Page in Chicago P.D. [via Deadline]
• •Atlanta alum Zazie Baetz will lead They Will Kill You as a woman who takes a job as a housekeeper in a Manhattan high-rise that has been the site of multiple disappearances. [via The Hollywood Reporter]
• •Past Lives star John Magaro has joined the ever-growing cast of The Agency, the Michael Fassbender-led espionage thriller for Showtime. [via Deadline]
• •3 Body Problem star Eiza Gonzalez is circling a role opposite Vince Vaughn and James Marsden in Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, vaguely described as a “buddy comedy set in a criminal underworld.” Might she be our Alice? [via Deadline]
• •Abraham Popoola joins Nicolas Cage in Spider-Noir as a “World War I veteran who is looking for an opportunity to get ahead.” [via Deadline]
• •Boyd Holbrook has joined the always impressive, if wacky, cast of The Morning Show as Brodie, a “popular and provocative podcaster and talk show host.” Whether that’s popular and provocative in a Dax Shepard way or an Andrew Tate way remains to be seen. [via Deadline]
• •SNL alum Chris Redd and actor and songwriter Pardison Fontaine have joined Power Book III: Raising Kanan for its fourth season, playing the good-natured Early Tyler and the incarcerated young rapper B-Rilla, respectively. [via Deadline]
• •Maude Apatow, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Lil Rel Howery, Janelle James, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, and Katt Williams have all joined Issa Rae’s untitled, SZA and Keke Palmer-starring buddy comedy. Thank god. [via Deadline]
• •Another great lineup: Anna Chlumsky, James Badge Dale, Mireille Enos, Tim Blake Nelson, and Lois Smith have all joined the cast of On The End, a romantic drama set against the backdrop of small-town, Montauk politics. [via Deadline]