Are you ready to hear Poppy and Alex for the first time? The highly anticipated adaptation of Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation now has a release date. The romantic comedy will be hitting Netflix screens on January 9, 2026. The film stars Emily Bader (My Lady Jane) as Poppy and Tom Blyth (The Ballad of the Songbirds and Snakes) as Alex in the Emily Henry Booktok favorite. Miles Heizer, Alice Lee, Tommy Do, Alan Ruck, and Molly Shannon will also star. The announcement came with a fun video featuring Bader and Blyth‘s voices, dialogue from the film. The logline for the upcoming flick is as follows:
“Free-spirited Poppy and routine-loving Alex have been unlikely best friends for a decade, living in different cities but spending every summer vacation together. The careful balance of their friendship is put to the test when they begin to question what has been obvious to everyone else — could they actually be the perfect romantic match?”
For romcom movie lovers that are maybe just hearing the name Emily Henry, the romance author currently has six books under her belt, including People We Meet on Vacation. She’s published at an impressive speed, with her debut romance novel, Beach Read, which came out in 2020 and her most recent book Great Big Beautiful Life, released back in April. Henry‘s all about contemporary romance with quick, witty, heartwarming stories that make the characters feel so incredible real. Her writing is cinematic, making it ripe for adaptation.
That’s why, according to Deadline, as of last September, her first four books have some sort of news swirling around adaptations, including, of course, People We Meet on Vacation. Beach Read is set to be adapted and directed by Yulin Kuang, Book Lovers currently has Sarah Heyward attached to write the script, and Happy Place has been optioned by Jennifer Lopez‘s Nuyorican Productions. No cast have been attached to any of the other projects, with the energy seemingly being narrowed in on People We Meet on Vacation, but if the film keeps the same spirit as the book, fans will be champing at the bit for more of Henry‘s books to get all the way to their screens.
People We Meet on Vacation releases January 9, 2026 on Netflix. Check out the sneak peek above, and you can buy Henry‘s books anywhere that books are sold.
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