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Robbie Amell to star and produce teen romance movie 'Float'
By Rachelle / 22 Sep 2020 (Tuesday)
Star of Upload, Code 8 and Netflix's The Babysitter: Killer Queen, Robbie Amell, is set to produce and star in Float, a movie based on the Kate Marchant popular Wattpad teen-romance story of the same name.
Float centers on 17-year-old Waverly, who after her parents’ messy divorce finds herself yanked from her comfortable life in Alaska to spend the summer in her aunt’s sunny beach town. Waverly quickly begins to clash with one of her new neighbors and the polar opposite of everything she represents: an arrogant, jaded beach bum named Blake (Amell). Things take a turn after Blake learns Waverly’s embarrassing secret — that she can’t swim — and her one-time nemesis, who’s the town lifeguard, offers to teach her.
Amell said in a statement:
Kate wrote such an incredibly touching and relatable love story. I hope the fans are as excited as I am to see these characters come to life.
The Wattpad story has accumulated more than 25.5 million reads and is among the top 20 stories in the teen romance category on the user-generated fiction platform. This adaptation is not the first Wattpad to film project to come to fruition. Previous projects include the After film series and Netflix’s The Kissing Booth, both of which had their start on Wattpad.