Curtis Sittenfeld’s bestselling Prep novel is being adapted into a Netflix series. “I’m overjoyed that Netflix is making Prep as a TV show – the 22-year wait was worth it!” stated Sittenfeld.
One Day‘s Nicole Taylor adapted Sittenfeld’s novel and will serve as showrunner and executive producer. “Alix Taylor at Gloria Sanchez has guided the project forward with such intelligence and enthusiasm, and Nicole Taylor’s scripts are truly brilliant,” said Sittenfeld. “Nicole’s adaptation makes me understand my own novel, and myself, better. My 51-year-old self can’t wait to see what they do with this story of privilege, longing, and teen angst.”
Prep, which was given a straight-to-series order, has Sittenfeld, Will Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum, and Alix Taylor for Gloria Sanchez Productions on board as executive producers.
Netflix hasn’t announced any cast news or when filming is expected to begin. The series is described as “a coming-of-age story about scholarship girl Lee Fiora’s high school years at Ault, a prestigious New England boarding school, and her journey to navigate friendship, crushes, and class as a fish out of water among her privileged, confident classmates.”
Commenting on the series order announcement, Nicole Taylor said, “Prep is my all-time favourite novel, and I have longed to adapt it for the entire twenty years since I first read it and found myself reflected uncannily back. There is no more acute depiction of the introspective, bookish self-conscious adolescent girl and no more truthful or excoriating take on the perils of social mobility than in Curtis Sittenfeld’s beautiful first novel. I am overjoyed to be adapting for Netflix.”