It has been shared the first trailer of the movie adaptation of the book written by Casey McQuiston Red, White & Royal Blue.
THE BOOK
Red, White & Royal Blue is a LGBTQ+ romance book written by Casey McQuiston. It was published for the first time in 2019 by St. Martin’s Press.
The author has declared that she coinceived the idea of the story during the 2016 presidential election.
The book was released firstly in paperback version. Then in 2022 an hardocover collector’s edition was published with a new cover and an extra chapter written from Prince Henry’s point of view.
When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius―his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There’s only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations.
THE MOVIE
A movie adaptation of the story of Alex and Henry was announced by Amazon Studios in 2019. The movie is directed by Metthew Lopez, filming begun and wrapped up between june and august 2022.
Amazon has shared the first trailer of Red, White & Royal Blue movie with Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez as the two protagonists, Prince Henry and Alex Claremont-Diaz, the son of USA President played by Uma Thurman.
Among the main cast memebers there are also: Stephen Fry ( The King and Grandfather of Henry), Sarah Shahi (Zahra Bankston), Rachel Hilson (Nora Holleran), Ellie Bamber (Princess Bea) e Malcolm Atobrah (Percy Okonjo).
There will be also in the movie Clifton Collins Jr., Aneesh Sheth, Polo Morín, Sharon D. Clarke, Thomas Flynn, Malcolm Atobrah, Ahmed Elhaj, Akshay Khanna e Juan Castano.
The movie is scheduled to premiere on August 11th 2023 on Primevideo.
When it was published, the book got generally positive reviews both from critics and audience. It also won two prizes, the Alex Award in 2020 and Goodreads Choice Award nel 2019.
From the trailer, the premises of the movie seem to be good. The two actors are cute together and it seems that the movie respect the comedy aspect of the story but also the more profound one linked to the relationship of the two protagonists.
We see if this adaptation will be succeful in a month.