Gabrielle Zevin’s ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ Is Becoming a Movie—Meet the Cast
Get ready to see Sam and Sadie's 30-year friendship come to life on the big screen
Book lovers, we have some exciting news: Gabrielle Zevin’s bestselling novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is officially becoming a movie! That’s right, readers, we’re finally going to get to meet Sam Masur and Sadie Green. To learn more about the adaptation, including who is going to be joining the cast, keep reading.
What to know about the ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ movie
The Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow movie is expected to follow the same plot as Zevin’s New York Times bestselling book. Sam and Sadie are longtime friends who have begged, borrowed money and more all in the hopes of getting their video game, Ichigo, off the ground. Spanning 30 years, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow examines what it really means to be someone’s friend, even when the outside world makes it incredibly difficult.
“The first nine books I wrote, there’s not a single reference to video games in them… but my dad was a computer programmer, and so I played video games my whole life,” Zevin told the Today show in 2022. “I had poured 40 years into thinking [about] and playing video games, without thinking that was a particularly interesting thing about myself, or a subject.”
“I think that people [are surprised] that they can connect with the story about video games as much as they have,” she continued. “I’ll meet people that say they have no connection to the book… but on some level, I think we’re all playing video games all the time. Look at something like Instagram or any social media. These are like game-based applications. They have a reward system, a currency system based on ‘likes,’ but they’re very much games. I think even the person that thinks they have no connection with games has some connection with games.”
Get to know the ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ cast
It was recently announced that Daisy Edgar-Jones, an actress best known for Normal People (2020), Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) and Twisters (2024), would be playing Sadie in the Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow movie. It will be directed by Siân Heder, best known for CODA.
As of publication, Edgar-Jones is the only confirmed cast member.
‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ movie release date
Currently, the movie doesn’t have a release date, but that hasn’t stopped Zevin from commenting on the status of the project, which makes sense since she’s one of the primary script writers.
“Screenplays have rules. They are usually 90-120 pages, and their stories are largely told through external action. A novel can be any number of pages, and obviously one of the great joys of novels is that they can be so internal and can go deeply into character. I enjoy screenwriting as a break from novel writing,” the author told Nerd Daily in 2022. “A screenplay is more manageable, which is to say, a complete task. I can be lost in writing a novel for years.”
“I began seriously researching the novel at the end of 2017. I continued researching and did some writing in 2018 and 2019. Felt despair and gave up for a bit at the end of 2019. The bulk of the writing was done in 2020. I think the pandemic influenced the writing of the book a great deal–for obvious reasons, I felt more alone than I had felt since I wrote my first novel, and the quiet gave my writing an intense focus. I didn’t have to think much about what would happen with the book,” she continued. “I just knew that I wanted to write it, and in a strange way, the solitude gave me courage and silenced the persistent voice of doubt, which whispered, Would people even want to read a book about video game designers? The other way I can see the pandemic in the novel is in its settings. Tomorrow takes place in Los Angeles, New York, Cambridge, Tokyo—these are all towns where I’ve lived or worked. Writing was a way to travel without traveling.”
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