#FIRSTLOOK: CASTING ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR “THIS SUMMER WILL BE DIFFERENT”

Today Netflix announced Francesca Reale (Stranger Things, Do Revenge) will play “Bridget” and Roby Attal (The Haunting of Bly Manor, Sex Lives of College Girls) will play her brother Felix (nicknamed “Wolf”) in Netflix’s adaptation of Canadian author Carley Fortune’s bestselling contemporary romance novel This Summer Will Be Different.

Logline: This Summer Will Be Different, based on the beloved novel by Carley Fortune, is a simmering, sun-soaked romance set across multiple summers on Prince Edward Island about Lucy, a young woman navigating her 20s and her first real love with her best friend’s brother, the one person she was never supposed to fall for.

Creators/Showrunners: Dane Clark (Suze, One More Time), Linsey Stewart (Workin’ Moms, North of North)

Executive Producers: Dane Clark, Linsey Stewart, Carley Fortune (Every Summer After, Our Perfect Storm), and Jennifer Kawaja (Sort Of, Wayward), Elise Cousineau (Cardinal, Small Achievable Goals) and Samantha Levine for Sphere Media

Production Company: Sphere Media

The show will film on Prince Edward Island and in Toronto.

This Summer Will Be Different joins Netflix’s growing Canadian slate including North of North , Wayward, Who Killed the Montreal Expos?, BELOW and The Granville Girls.

Reale was most recently seen in Musica, alongside Camila Mendes, as well as Laid starring Stephanie Hsu. Reale is also well known for appearing in the third season of the Golden Globe-nominated and SAG Award-winning series Stranger Things.

Attal can most recently be seen in recurring roles in the series Dexter: Original Sin opposite Patrick Gibson and Christian Slater, as well as Mindy Kaling’s Sex Lives of College Girls.