Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Fall may be giving way to winter, but The Summer I Turned Pretty is still top of mind for many of the Prime Video drama's fans. They can thank Jenny Han for that. The creator of the cultural phenomenon celebrated her series' September finale by announcing a film - one that almost nobody knew about beforehand. "I really wanted to have this big moment," she says of the Paris finale party, where the poster switched to read from "The Summer I Turned Pretty" to "The Summer I Turned Pretty: The Movie" just before the screening ended. "The craziest thing about it was that there were so many fans outside, but they were so focused on looking at Chris [Briney] and Lola [Tung] taking a picture that nobody was looking at the marquee." Related Stories TV Amazon Launches AI-Powered Series Recap Videos TV 'Stargate' Reopens With New Series at Prime Video Han sat down to discuss her well-kept secret and one of her series' more significant episodes during a recent installment of THR Presents. After a screening of "Last Dance," the season three episode told from the perspective of Briney's Conrad Fisher, Han talked about why she chose the episode as her directorial debut - and the note she gave Briney about his performance. "One of the notes I gave during the peaches scene was for him to memorize her face," she says of the fruit stand moment his character shared with Tung's Isabel "Belly" Conklin. "There's a certain kind of dreamy quality to his point of view and the way he looks at her. You see how precious she is to him, how beautiful, how dear. [The episode] often feels like you're in a memory, and that's what I want the show to do as well ... that feeling of nostalgia."That Han would be keen to evoke feelings of nostalgia isn't a shocker for her viewers. What may be more of a surprise is a film she took visual cues from in directing that episode: Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. Even more unexpected is one of her tonal inspirations. "It's like a mafia movie, she says, "Like Heat. One more heist and then [he's] outta here."Over the course of the conversation, seen in full in the video above, Han also talked about song choices in the final season, navigating all of the attention amid the third season's spike in popularity and why she feels a movie, not another season, is the right way to continue her story. This edition of THR Presents is sponsored by Prime Video. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up Fox Entertainment '100 Foot Wave' EP Maria Zuckerman Inks First-Look Deal at Fox Entertainment Studios noads How to Stream the 2025 CMA Awards Online Live Feed Amazon Launches AI-Powered Series Recap Videos Live Feed 'Stargate' Reopens With New Series at Prime Video Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 'Friends,' 'The Morning Show' Costume Designer Debra McGuire: "We Are the Silent Storytellers" Twin Peaks 'Twin Peaks' DP Ronald Víctor García on Shaping the Look of David Lynch's TV Masterpiece Fox Entertainment '100 Foot Wave' EP Maria Zuckerman Inks First-Look Deal at Fox Entertainment Studios noads How to Stream the 2025 CMA Awards Online Live Feed Amazon Launches AI-Powered Series Recap Videos Live Feed 'Stargate' Reopens With New Series at Prime Video Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 'Friends,' 'The Morning Show' Costume Designer Debra McGuire: "We Are the Silent Storytellers" Twin Peaks 'Twin Peaks' DP Ronald Víctor García on Shaping the Look of David Lynch's TV Masterpiece