Continuing its fashion of adapting first-rate-dealers into movies, Netflix has received the rights to Richard Paul Evan’s New York Times bestselling novel, The Noel Diary. The upcoming model of this vacation-themed tale is ready a person who gets the first-rate Christmas gift he should ask for: the danger to re-write his beyond.
The movie could be helmed with the aid of using Oscar-nominated veteran director Charles Shyer of Father of the Bride, Private Benjamin, and Alfie fame.
Shyer has additionally written the script for the film along side creator Rebecca Connor (The Family) and David Golden. Timothy O. Johnson of Johnson Production Group, Margret Huddleston, and Stephanie Slack are the producers, at the same time as Hartley and Norman Stephens function the govt producers.
What’s the plot of The Noel Diary?
Netflix’s The Noel Diary is an model of Richard Paul Evans’ bestselling novel of the identical call and its logline is pretty extensive:
Bestselling romance creator Jacob Churcher hasn’t been domestic for nearly twenty years—now no longer due to the fact that his mentally sick mom kicked him out of the residence while he turned into simply sixteen. When a legal professional calls, days earlier than Christmas, to tell him that his estranged mom has exceeded away and left her residence to him, Jacob returns now no longer simply to settle the property however to try to reconcile with the beyond and the ache and abuse he skilled as a child. Also, perhaps cleansing out her residence could be barely much less miserable than spending the vacations alone, looking re-runs of Christmas classics. But because it turns out, the residence holds extra than simply tough memories, Jacob’s mom had turn out to be a hoarder and he have to excavate via a long time really well worth of clutter.
As Jacob digs via the detritus, like an archaeologist, he uncovers many perplexing gadgets together with a diary left with the aid of using a person named Noel, a younger female he has no recollection of, who stayed with Jacob’s own circle of relatives in the course of her pregnancy. That’s now no longer the simplest echo from the beyond. Jacob has an surprising visitor, Rachel, a female searching out the mom who positioned her up for adoption thirty years earlier than. United with the aid of using their quest to make experience of the beyond and rewrite their futures, Jacob and Rachel start a look for Noel. Along the manner they locate extra than they probable imagined, together with grace, forgiveness and a danger at love.
Netflix’s very own logline for the collection is an awful lot extra quick saying:
“A guy returns domestic at his mom’s demise and at the same time as exploring his very own beyond, falls in love with a own circle of relatives acquaintance. Based on the unconventional with the aid of using Richard Paul Evans.”
Who is forged in The Noel Diary?
It turned into introduced in August 2020 that This is Us famous person Justin Hartley might lead The Noel Diary as Jacob Churcher. Hartley could be joined with the aid of using Golden Globe nominee Bonnie Bedelia (Die Hard, Parenthood) and any other Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Treat Williams (Everwood, Hair, Blue Bloods).
Further Cast individuals include:
- James Remar (Sex and the City: A Farewell)
- Essence Atkins (A Haunted House)
- Andrea Sooch (Better Call Saul)
- Barrett Doss as Rachel (Iron Fist)
- Vivian Full as Shari (The Escape Room)
- Aaron Costa Ganis (Lazy Eye)
What’s the manufacturing fame on The Noel Diary?
Production for The Noel Diary came about in Stamford, Connecticut, among May 24 and June 28, 2021, in line with trouble 1241 of Production Weekly.
Additional filming came about in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Local reporting noticed the manufacturing filming on-location.
In May 2021, Stamford Advocate suggested they have been actively searching out extras for the manufacturing.
The Hartford Courant published that the Manchester Memorial Hospital turned into adorned for the vacations in mid-June 2021.
The DailyMail additionally suggested in overdue June 2022 (simply earlier than the film wrapped) numerous pictures, together with Justin Hartley on set.
When will The Noel Diary be launched on Netflix?
We did at the beginning expect the Christmas film in vacation season 2021 however that didn’t come to pass.
Instead, the film will ultimate for the 2022 vacation season, with its Netflix launch date set for November 24th, 2022. It’s referred to as a “predominant tentpole Christmas film” for 2022.