After writing and producing Reindeer Games Homecoming and A Cowboy Christmas Romance, Sarah Drew is set to reunite with Lifetime for another christmas movie. According to Deadline, the American network has acquired A Carpenter Christmas Romance, written by Sarah Drew and starring Sasha Pieterse (Pretty Little Liars) and Mitchell Slaggert (The Sex Lives of College Girls). With this acquisition, Lifetime hopes to repeat the success of A Cowboy Christmas Romance, which became Lifetime’s most-watched Christmas movie last year.
In A Carpenter Christmas Romance, we follow Andrea (Sasha Pieterse), a successful novelist who hints that her next book may take a tragic turn.
Faced with an outcry from her fans who refuse to allow their
favorite character to be killed off, she must find refuge in a
quiet place to write the ending of her novel. Her choice: her
family’s farm in the town of Willwood.
To her surprise, when she arrives, she runs into her old crush Seth
(Mitchell Slaggert), a carpenter who is helping to rebuild the town
after it was almost completely destroyed by fire. According to the
official synopsis, “It doesn’t take long for sawdust and sparks
of romance fill the air once the two team up and work together to
reignite the town’s Christmas spirit. Is this romance just a
holiday fling that ends when her trip is over? Or can the two build
a love that is made to last?” We’ll have to wait a few more
weeks to find out.
In a statement relayed by Deadline, Sarah Drew made no secret of her excitement about her new Christmas film: “After the success of A Cowboy Christmas Romance, it solidified that there is an audience hungry for spicy Christmas romance movies. Working with Autumn Federici and Jake Helgren at The Ninth House was as dreamy this time, as it was last time. I’m thrilled that Lifetime is supporting us in bringing a little more naughty into the nice this holiday season. I can’t wait for you all to see Sasha Pieterse and Mitchell Slaggert absolutely sizzle and shine on screen together. I could not have imagined a more perfect duo as the leads“.
Sarah Drew
Sasha Pieterse
