The Notebook Gets a TV Adaptation That No One Asked For

There's just, uh, so many questions left unanswered in the original text.

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The CW plans to turn The Notebook into a television series; in other words, they’re making a huge bet that the world’s love of this Nicholas Sparks classic was not contingent upon the dual charisma of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. The show’s creators are really hoping that we all just want to find out more about Noah and Allie’s life. (Those are the main characters’ names. Not “Ryan Gosling” and “Rachel McAdams,” by which I have always referred to them.)

I’m not sure whether the television show will include a lot of flash-forwards to a nursing home, nor do I know whether the show will attempt to hold off on revealing that “twist” throughout its run. I do know it’ll follow the pair’s “blossoming relationship as they build their lives and their future together against the backdrop of the racial politics, economic inequities and social mores of post-World War II in the late 1940s in North Carolina.”

Of course, the question on everyone’s mind when they finished The Notebook had to be, “But what about the day-to-day mundanities of Noah and Allie’s married life — you know, the doctors appointments and grocery trips they took after their whirlwind courtship but before their elderly diary sessions?” Actually, never mind. That sounds so boring that it might circle back around to being surprisingly subversive. Carry on, the CW.

(via Hollywood Reporter, image via Buzzfeed)

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