Sony Pictures Releasing bought the film rights to the book, and Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine production company produced the film, with Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter as co-producers. Lucy Alibar adapted the book to film script.[25][26][27] Daisy Edgar-Jones plays Kya,[28] with Taylor John Smith and Harris Dickinson as Tate Walker and Chase Andrews, respectively.[15] Filming took place from mid-April through mid/late-June 2021 in and around New Orleans and Houma, Louisiana.[29] On July 5, 2021, Cosmopolitan reported that filming had wrapped.[30] The film was released on July 15, 2022.
The soundtrack album is by Canadian composer Mychael Danna.[31] Taylor Swift also contributed an original song, "Carolina", to the soundtrack.[32]
