One of Prime Video’s biggest breakout hit series of recent years is wrapping up its run with a feature-length conclusion — but the massive, passionate fanbase that turned *The Summer I Turned Pretty* into a global phenomenon is now creating unexpected headaches for its production team.
In an official public statement posted across social media channels, the creative team behind the coming-of-age romantic drama has urged fans to immediately stop visiting active filming locations and leaking on-set footage online, citing legitimate safety risks and constant disruptions to the production process.
“We absolutely love how excited you are for this final chapter, but sharing unconfirmed location details and turning up on set derails our filming schedule,” the team explained in the post. The statement comes after dozens of unofficial clips purporting to show lead cast members on set have circulated widely across TikTok, Instagram, and other social platforms, with some short videos racking up hundreds of thousands of views in just days.
To deliver a polished, seamless final product, the production team says they have worked for months to build a controlled, private production environment, calling this “protected bubble” critical to crafting the conclusion fans deserve. Jenny Han, the best-selling author who originally wrote the *The Summer I Turned Pretty* trilogy and is returning to write and direct the upcoming final film, echoed the team’s request in a post to her own Instagram Story.
Han explained that overenthusiastic fan visits have forced production to repeatedly pause filming to clear crowds from shooting setups, breaking crew focus and throwing carefully planned shooting schedules off track. “This story means more to me than I can say, and I know it means just as much to all of you,” she wrote.
First launched on Prime Video in 2022, *The Summer I Turned Pretty* quickly became a cultural juggernaut, drawing millions of viewers worldwide with its tender coming-of-age story and addictive love triangle at its core. The series follows Isabel “Belly” Conklin, played by rising star Lola Tung, as she navigates young adulthood and a years-long romantic connection with brothers Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher, portrayed by Christopher Briney and Gavin Casalegno. The show’s central romantic dynamic even spawned an internet-wide cultural divide, with passionate “Team Conrad” and “Team Jeremiah” factions that have occasionally spilled over into targeted harassment of cast members amid heated debates.
At the peak of its third season run last year, *The Summer I Turned Pretty* claimed the title of Prime Video’s most-watched series in the United Kingdom, and hit the number one streaming spot in more than 120 countries around the globe, cementing its status as one of the platform’s most successful original series. This is not the first time production has been forced to rein in fan behavior, either: ahead of the third season’s emotional climax last year, creators issued a similar plea asking fans to “act normal online” after cast members faced sustained online abuse tied to plot developments.
While the series is set at the iconic fictional Cousins Beach, on-location filming primarily takes place across coastal towns in North Carolina. Plot details for the upcoming feature film remain tightly under wraps, but Amazon MGM Studios has confirmed it will serve as the definitive final chapter closing out Belly’s coming-of-age journey, with all core lead cast members set to reprise their roles for the feature-length conclusion.