Sadie Soverall (Saltburn) and Matt Cornett (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series) are set as the leads in Every Year After, Prime Video‘s upcoming series based on Carley Fortune‘s bestselling romantic novel Every Summer After. Rounding out the main cast are Aurora Perrineau (Kaos), Abigail Cowen (Fate: The Winx Saga), Michael Bradway (Chicago Fire) and Joseph Chiu (Fear Street: Prom Queen).
Told over the course of six years and one week in Barry’s Bay – the quintessential lake town –Every Year After is described as a romantic, nostalgic story of first loves and the people and choices that mark us forever.
Soverall will play Percy, Cornett portrays Sam, Perrineau is Chantal, Cowen plays Delilah, Bradway portrays Charlie and Chiu is Jordie.
Every Year After will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. A date is TBA.
Every Summer After, which spent 14 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list, has sold 1M+ copies to date. The book gained popularity through BookTok, with Every Summer After hashtag getting over 81.4M views on TikTok.
“I couldn’t be more excited about this fabulous cast!,” said Fortune. “This is an enormously talented group of actors, whose auditions made me laugh, swoon, and cry. I know they’ll have fans of Every Summer After falling in love with their favorite characters all over again.”
Amy B. Harris will serve as showrunner and executive producer alongside Fortune, Lindsey Liberatore, Amy Rardin, John Stephens and Grace Gilroy as executive producers.
Soverall will next lead the fantasy thriller I Am A Monster for Iconoclast, starring alongside Havana Rose Liu. She also starred in Channel 4’s The Gathering.
Cornett is best known for his breakout role of “E.J.” on Disney+’s Emmy-nominated series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. Most recently, he starred in American High’s Summer of 69 opposite Chloe Fineman, Charlie Day and Liza Koshy.
Perrineau also can also be seen starring in Netflix’s Kaos series from Charlie Covell. She also appeared in Ava Duvernay’s When They See Us (Netflix), HBO’s Westworld and in Fox series Prodigal Son. Her feature work includes Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare and indie feature Boo!.
Cowen can currently be seen in The Ritual, opposite Al Pacino and Dan Stevens, and in director Hala Matar’s feature debut, Electra. She’ll next appear in upcoming indie features, including Heavenly Wickedness,, Summerhouse, opposite Malcom McDowell and Jacob Ward and Daisy for director Nikhil Melnechuk.
In addition to Chicago Fire, Bradway appeared in features such as Marked Men directed by Nick Cassavetes and Safe House directed by Jamie Marshall.
Chiu can be seen in Netflix’s Fear Street: Prom Queens and in Prime Video’s new series Motorheads.