BookTok Darling RWRB’s Direct-to-Amazon Romance Is Frothy Fan-Service
Red, White & Royal Blue, the bestselling rom-com from Casey McQuiston, gives the bisexual son of America’s first female president a fairy-tale film adaptation made for easy streaming.
Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Henry and Taylor Zakhar Perez as Alex Claremont-Diaz in Prime Video’s Red, White & Royal Blue.
Photographer: Jonathan Prime/Amazon Studios
A core requirement of the modern romance genre is a happily ever after, or at least a happily for now. There is usually a big sweeping gesture and often a breakup in between. The joy isn’t in the element of surprise. It’s in watching how the love story plays out.
That works in the favor of Red, White & Royal Blue, the direct-to-streaming adaptation of the #BookTok-famous Casey McQuiston novel by the same name, out on Amazon Prime Video on Aug. 11. Readers of the book, which was first published in 2019, already know how First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz and Prince Henry of England are drawn together, then apart, then back together again. Those who haven’t read the novel will have a good time watching Alex and Henry’s story unfold, but this is a movie for the fans.