What’s subsequent for Ani FaNelli? Luckiest Girl Alive, the film version of Jessica Knoll’s 2015 bestseller, ends with Mila Kunis’ lead individual Ani making the selection to publicly talk out approximately being sexually assaulted as a youngster. Her powerful essay makes it into The New York Times and conjures up fellow survivors to sense less on my own.

Also, she calls off her wedding at the closing minute, admitting to her wealthy fiancé Luke (Finn Wittrock) that she changed into merely the use of him to complete her apparently ideal life.

The movie extends slightly past in which the ebook leaves off and mirrors some real-life Today display remarks Knoll once made about sharing her own private connection to the fictional tale.

The creator, 38, previously discovered she became sexually assaulted at 15 and based Ani’s storyline on her personal trauma.

The reader comments blanketed in the ending are an amalgam of actual messages she obtained after coming forward, and Knoll’s voice is one of the narrators featured in that collection.

Kunis, 39, who’s additionally a manufacturer on the film, lately told people she could be on board if asked to return for a sequel: “Oh my God, I desire my individual is happier! Yeah, of path [I would]. I love Jess.” Chiara Aurelia, who performs Kunis’ teen counterpart in flashbacks, echoed that sentiment, adding, “Yes a hundred-million instances over.

I love every unmarried individual worried with this project and I could do anything to paintings with them all again. Truly.”

What would Knoll envision for a capacity sequel? She desires to discover greater of Ani’s satisfactory buddy Nell, played within the movie by way of Succession megastar Justine Lupe.

“Sometimes I consider writing Nell’s tale. Like, where is Nell nowadays? So perhaps,” says Knoll. Producer Bruna Papandrea (who is behind indicates like Big Little Lies, The Undoing and Nine Perfect Strangers) additionally teases “never say in no way” approximately a potential sequel and floats the idea of a Netflix spin-off collection.

Knoll, who’s additionally operating on adapting her second novel The Favorite Sister for tv and has two different film screenplays inside the works, says it’s “bittersweet” to place a near her deeply private Luckiest Girl Alive bankruptcy. For now, even though, she’s satisfied it’s attaining a wholly new audience on Netflix.

“It appears like there may be a variety of emotion at the back of this task and thinking that I’ll in no way work on it once more is bittersweet. But on the identical time, it changed into time.

Seven years is a long term, even extra than that due to the fact I started out writing the book in 2013, so it is nearly 10 years that this tale and person were part of my existence,” Knoll says.

‘Luckiest Girl Alive 2’? Mila Kunis on Possibility of Sequel: ‘I Hope My Character Is Happier!’

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Luckiest Girl Alive is now streaming on Netflix. The novel is available anyplace books are sold.