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No New TSITP Episode This Week as Season 3 Ends; The Summer I Turned Pretty Movie on the Way

Season 3 wraps with 11 episodes on Prime Video; a feature film will continue Belly’s story, with development underway but a definite release date not yet announced.

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No New TSITP Episode This Week as Season 3 Ends; The Summer I Turned Pretty Movie on the Way

The Summer I Turned Pretty will not air a new episode this week, as Prime Video’s adaptation of Jenny Han’s beloved romance has closed its Season 3 run with 11 episodes. The third season extended the story beyond earlier runtimes and culminated on Wednesday, September 17, with Episode 11, “At Last,” signaling the end of this chapter and a shift in how the series’ narrative will continue on screen.

On-screen moments from Season 3 included Belly (Lola Tung) and Conrad (Christopher Briney) finally confessing their love to one another during a train sequence in Paris, a pivotal scene that has dominated fan conversation since its air. The ensemble cast also features Gavin Casalegno as Jeremiah, Rain Spencer as Taylor, and Sean Kaufman as Steven, all central to the Cousins Beach circle that readers and viewers have followed across three seasons.

Following the finale, creator Jenny Han and Prime Video confirmed that the story would continue in a new form: a feature film, The Summer I Turned Pretty: The Movie. Han will direct the project, with a screenplay written by Han and Sarah Kucserka. In a Prime Video press release, Han explained that Belly’s journey still holds a major milestone that she felt could best be told in a movie format: “There is another big milestone left in Belly’s journey, and I thought only a movie could give it its proper due.”

Details on the film’s release date remain uncertain. In a recent appearance on The Today Show, Han indicated that the movie is not expected to come out next year and could fall in a 2026 or 2027 window at the earliest, though she emphasized that filming has not yet begun. “We still have to make it,” she said, noting that the writing process has progressed to a completed draft with ongoing work to refine the script. The production timeline reflects the project’s early stage and the studio’s careful approach to adapting the final stage of Belly’s story.

The movie is positioned to explore material that the Season 3 finale left open, including threads from the book trilogy’s final volume, We’ll Always Have Summer. Fans who have read the novels will recall substantial developments and epilogue material that were not fully depicted on screen in Season 3, and Han suggested the project would give those moments their proper cinematic treatment. While specifics remain tightly under wraps, the project has already generated excitement among TSITP fans who are eager to see Belly, Conrad, Jeremiah, and the rest of the Cousins Beach clan reach a concluding milestone in a new cinematic format.

For now, viewers can revisit the series on Prime Video, where all three seasons remain available to stream. Prime Video remains the home for The Summer I Turned Pretty, and new subscribers can take advantage of the platform’s trial options before subscribing to the service. With the movie in development and writing underway, fans of Belly’s world can anticipate a future chapter that aims to close the on-screen story in a fashion befitting the beloved books while expanding the franchise beyond the television series.


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