Jenna Evans Welch’s ‘Love & Gelato’ Adaptation Headed to Netflix

The romance novel Love & Gelato via way of means of creator Jenna Evans Welch is getting an model at Netflix which has already wrapped filming. Here’s a completely early have a take a observe what we recognize up to now approximately the approaching film.

First posted in May 2016, Love & Gelato comes from writer Jenna Evans Welch who is also regarded for Spells for Lost Things and comply with-ups to Love & Gelato. Those comply with-ups consist of Love & Luck and Love & Olives.

Here’s the GoodReads description for the primary of the 3 books:

“Lina is spending the summer time season in Tuscany, however she isn’t withinside the temper for Italy’s well-known sunshine and fairy-story landscape. She’s best there as it turned into her mother’s demise desire that she get to recognize her father. But what type of father isn’t round for 16 years? All Lina desires to do is cross again home.

But then she is given a magazine that her mother had saved while she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a mystical global of mystery romances, art, and hidden bakeries. A global that conjures up her, at the side of the ever-so-fascinating Ren, to comply with in her mother’s footsteps and unearth a mystery that has been saved for a long way too long. It’s a mystery with a purpose to trade the whole thing she knew approximately her mother, her father—or even herself.

People come to Italy for romance and gelato, a person tells her, however every so often they find out a good deal greater.”

An IMDb web page for the assignment states the romance Netflix model is as follows:

“An American woman who, after the dying of her mother, arrives in Florence to satisfy her father whom she has by no means met.”

Now it’s really well worth noting at this factor that Netflix has but to formally announce Love & Gelato. The Hollywood change magazines additionally haven’t featured the assignment in any shape either.

We have numerous indicators that the assignment is at Netflix, however. Firstly, a manufacturing supply in Italy confirms the assignment, an IMDb web page additionally exists and Netflix currently registered a copyright for the film withinside the United States.

Who’s at the back of Love & Gelato on Netflix and who’s withinside the solid?

Brandon Camp is reportedly on board to put in writing and direct the characteristic film.

Camp is possibly fine regarded for steering and generating the 2018 reboot of Benji that turned into launched on Netflix exclusively. He’s additionally been worried with tasks consisting of 2009’s Love Happens (which turned into produced via way of means of Netflix’s Scott Stuber) and additionally wrote 2002’s fable drama Dragon Fly from Universal Pictures.

In phrases of solid, Robin Tunney (maximum regarded for The Craft and greater currently Netflix’s Horse Girl) will play the function of Hadley Emerson.

Owen McDonnell (regarded for Killing Eve) will play Howard.

Anjelika Washington (regarded for Netflix’s Tall Girl) will play Addie

Valentina Lodovini is on board to play Francesca, Susanna Skaggs will play Lina Emerson and Tera Hendrickson will play a priest.

You can locate greater individuals of the solid at the IMDb web page.

Anjelika Washington published severa snap shots whilst in Italy in the course of the summer time season of 2021 with Jenna Evan Welch (the writer the book) commenting that it’s her “absolute preferred spot withinside the whole global”.

Filming occurred in Tuscany, Italy (especially Florence) in the course of June 2021 in line with the Toscana Film Commission Facebook web page. They state (translated from Italian):

“After the TV collection La Casa di Carta and the #SixUnderground film, Netflix is coming again to Florence!

Today is the final day of filming the TV collection “Love&Gelato” of #JennaEvansWelch taken from the namesake fine seller.

It’s the tale of an American woman who, after her mother’s dying, involves Florence to satisfy her father she’s by no means met.

Director Brandon Camp has determined to recount Florence via its maximum well-known monuments and the maximum ordinary settings, from the small streets, to the neighborhood markets, from the Cathedral to the Boboli Garden.”