Singer-songwriter Hayley Kiyoko has teamed with Focus Features for the upcoming film adaptation of Girls Like Girls, based on her viral 2015 song. This is will be Kiyoko’s feature directorial and screenwriting debut. Kiyoko’s Girls Like Girls music video currently has 157 million views on YouTube and starred Kelsey Asbille and Hayden Thompson. The film will follow the “universal story of falling in love for the first time, and learning to accept yourself along the way.”
Kiyoko has also published a Girls Like Girls novel back in 2023 which was a coming-of-age novel which reached the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list. The film could possibly be a feature film adaptation of that, and the synopsis of the novel reads; “It’s summertime and 17-year-old Coley has found herself alone, again. Forced to move to rural Oregon after just losing her mother, she is in no position to risk her already fragile heart. But when she meets Sonya, the attraction is immediate. Coley worries she isn’t worthy of love. Up until now, everyone she’s loved has left her. And Sonya’s never been with a girl before. What if she’s too afraid to show up for Coley? What if by opening her heart, Coley’s risking it all? They both realize that when things are pushed down, and feelings are forced to shrivel away, Coley and Sonya will be the ones to shrink. It’s not until they accept the love they fear and deserve most, that suddenly the song makes sense.”
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