The Sun Is Also The Moon is directed by Ry Russo-Young (Before I Fall) from a screenplay adaptation by Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip). But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love? With just hours left on the clock in what looks to be her last day in the U.S., Natasha is fighting against her family’s deportation as fiercely as she’s fighting her budding feelings for Daniel, who is working just as hard to convince her they are destined to be together.Ī modern-day story about finding love against all odds, The Sun Is Also a Star explores whether our lives are determined by fate or the random events of the universe. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. And in a city of more than eight million people, what are the odds that anyone will find the one…or that their paths will even cross?Ĭollege-bound romantic Daniel Bae and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley meet-and fall for each other-over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. In The Sun Is Also a Star, opposites attract against the backdrop of one of the busiest and most vibrant cities in the world: New York. “My husband is a great singer, and so is Daniel.” Nicola Yoon And we did go to karaoke a lot,” she smiles.

We talked about philosophical things and I was always the one asking, ‘What does it really mean?’ which, I’m sure, was kind of annoying. “But I’m Jamaican-American and my husband is Korean-American, like Natasha and Daniel, and we did have a lot of the conversations that I included in the book. “We did not meet whilst I was being deported, or anything like that,” Yoon confirms. Nicola Yoon, upon whose #1 New York Times bestselling novel The Sun Is Also The Moon the film is based, was inspired by the serendipity of her own relationship in creating the characters-though she and her husband did not meet at such a problematic time as Natasha and Daniel.

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