After I’ve seen the trailer, I was hooked. I have seen this book on the bookstore shelves countless times before Hilary Swank optioned the rights to the movie. 16.Something Borrowed is a chick lit released by author Emily Giffin in 2005 about a pair of lifelong friends - polar opposites of each other who find themselves in a bind after the nice one sleeps with the other one’s fiance and begins a rebellious clandestine affair.

Something Borrowed is available on DVD Aug. “After the credits there’s a little tag,” Giffin says. And Giffin and her fans have reason to hope for a sequel. Although the project isn’t officially underway, she says both Hudson and Krasinski have signed on, and she’s excited about the prospect of seeing them get back in character. Now that Something Borrowed is going to DVD, Giffin is looking ahead to the potential adaptation of her second novel, Something Borrowed sequel, Something Blue. … Ultimately, it probably wouldn’t have been my choice, but I think it worked and I understood why they did it, to bring a little more dramatic suspense to the big screen that you can get in other ways in a book.” “To me,” Giffin says, “It was always important to keep the integrity of that male-female friendship, with no undercurrent of romantic interest either way, and that was something that they changed and something that we had quite a lot of debate around. In the novel, Giffin says, Rachel had two friends to confide in, but to streamline the cast for the film, Hillary was cut, and Rachel was left with only Ethan to pour out her soul to. The other big change was with the character of Ethan (John Krasinski), Rachel’s confidante. “I was there through the casting process and knew who they were considering and I really believed in their choice, and that was able to capture the complexity of Darcy and make her self-absorbed and charming at the same time.” But, she adds, it isn’t just the looks that make the character. “I think people who had read the books and pictured that way had trouble making that mental adjustment,” Giffin says. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin