Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have embarked on an ambitious film project with their audiovisual content production company, Archewell Productions.
It’s a movie in collaboration with streaming giant Netflix that promises to be one of the year’s most outstanding productions.
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What is “Meet Me at the Lake”, Meghan and Harry’s movie
After the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were cornered by Netflix to come up with better content proposals, now it became known that the couple plans to debut in the creation of films and bought the rights to the successful romance novel “Meet Me at the Lake”, so revealed The Sun.
The royal couple hopes to turn the book, written by Carley Fortune, into a movie for the platform.
The book, which has spent six weeks on the prestigious New York Times bestseller list since its publication last May, tells the story of a 30-year-old woman whose mother dies in a car accident and also tells her love story.
The synopsis of the novel, which is set in Canada and listed on Amazon, says it is about “a chance connection that sends two strangers on a one-day adventure where they make a promise that one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing consequences”.
The acclaimed play explores themes such as childhood trauma, the loss of a parent in a car accident, mental health issues, or postpartum depression.
Meghan and Harry’s Netflix Deal Threatened
The Sussexes signed a deal with Netflix for about $100 million in 2020, reportedly committing to producing a variety of content, including documentaries, movies, children’s shows or docuseries. But numerous reports suggest that many of their ideas have fallen through.
The couple has already lost a multi-million dollar deal with Spotify after the platform announced it would not be renewing Meghan’s podcast for a second season.
This new project joins others that the couple has on the platform, such as “Harry & Meghan,” the documentary that Harry will release about the Invictus Games, and soon the other project that the son of King Charles plans to produce in Africa.
