Prince Harry, Meghan Markle purchase rights to ‘Meet Me on the Lake’: report

Celebrities

By Jane Herz

August 6, 2023 | 8:08pm

After a number of failed manufacturing makes an attempt, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could have discovered themselves one more Hollywood enterprise.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have bought the display rights to the favored romantic new launch “Meet Me on the Lake,” by Carley Fortune, to show it into a movie for Netflix, The Sun reports.

The novel, which spent six weeks on The New York Times bestsellers record since its Could launch, follows a 30-something girl, whose mom dies in a automotive crash, and her ensuing love story.

Per Deadline, the Canada-set novel explores themes of “childhood trauma, together with dropping a guardian in a automotive crash, psychological well being challenges and post-natal despair.”

The guide resembles Harry’s personal life — his mom, Princess Diana, died in a Paris automotive crash in 1997. Harry, 38, and Markle, 42, met of their 30s as effectively, as Markle filmed “Fits” in Canada.

It’s a take care of Penguin Random Home that will have value practically $4 million, one unidentified supply alleged to The Solar.

The potential new undertaking follows the couple’s 2022 Netflix docuseries “Harry & Meghan,” which chronicled their love story and struggles inside the royal household, in addition to the January launch of Harry’s tell-all memoir “Spare.”

Based on The Solar’s insider, Fortune’s guide particularly stood out to the pair.

“The themes of the guide gripped the couple, and it was chosen for his or her first adaptation with Netflix,” the supply mentioned.

The couple signed an estimated $100 million take care of Netflix in 2020, with the agreement reportedly requiring them to supply an array of content material, similar to documentaries, movies, youngsters’s reveals, docuseries and extra.

However a lot of their concepts have failed to get off the ground.

This might not be the one undertaking they’ve within the works with Netflix — in June, Page Six revealed that Harry is planning to return to Africa for a documentary.

The subject material is unclear.

The couple has endured profession lows in latest months, having been let go from Spotify after signing a $20 million deal in 2020.

Markle’s podcast, “Archetypes,” which boasted interviews with stars together with tennis legend Serena Williams and Bravo honcho Andy Cohen, was not renewed for a second season.

It was the one undertaking the couple produced for Spotify throughout their two-and-a-half-year partnership, other than a one-off vacation episode.

And in June, rumors swirled that Markle would signal a blockbuster take care of Dior — which was rapidly denied by a source from the posh trend home.

The Publish has reached out to reps for Markle and Harry, in addition to Fortune and Penguin Random Home, for remark.