JOCELYNE LLOYD: This summer will be different in P.E.I. |
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JOCELYNE LLOYD: This summer will be different in P.E.I.
I was going to open this column by saying I read Carley Fortune’s This Summer Will Be Different so you don’t have to, but that wouldn’t be fair. While definitely a smutty summer romp, the book has much about it that is sweet and earnest — and it does Prince Edward Island a lot of favours.
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The number of steamy sex scenes would definitely leave This Summer off of Rachel Lynde’s recommended reading list, but most of it is as much a love letter to P.E.I. as the Anne of Green Gables series of books in which Mrs. Lynde appears. I told my husband, “It’s like reading ‘The P.E.I. Department of Tourism visitor’s guide ~ The Novel.'”
So I support the P.E.I. government’s decision to get in bed with (pun intended) the production team who is going to make Fortune’s New York Times bestselling novel into a Netflix series.
This summer will indeed be different in P.E.I. when crews begin filming. The province hasn’t had a major production set up shop here since filming of Emily of New Moon wrapped in 2000.
That series, which ran on CBC from 1998-2003, brought a bit of an economic boost to the Island, employed Islanders in front of and behind the cameras, and left a legacy of sets and sound stages promising future projects that never really followed.
Netflix, though, is the big time.
Rob Riselli, executive director of Film P.E.I., told The Guardian at the June 4 announcement of government support that the production will create 75 local........