Individuals We Meet on Trip is lastly giving followers a peek into Alex and Poppy's globe-trotting love story.
Netflix launched its first teaser trailer for the upcoming adaptation of Emily Henry's 2021 novel on Tuesday, September 30, revealing the primary second the well-known e-book duo step off the aircraft and into one another's hearts.
The romantic comedy, directed by Brett Haley, stars Emily Bader and Tom Blyth within the lead roles of free-spirited Poppy and routine-loving Alex, respectively. The 2 longtime besties reside in numerous cities however spend each summer season vacationing collectively. Whereas the pair swear their completely “platonic,” their delicate relationship is put into flux after they begin to query what's been apparent to everybody else round them: they may simply be one another's excellent romantic match.
Tuesday's teaser opens with Poppy on the airport in baggage declare blasting Robyn's “Dangle With Me” whereas she waits for her baggage. As she breaks into (offkey) tune, she spots her bag on the conveyor belt first, dancing in celebration till she turns round — and bumps proper into Alex.
“Hello. Alex, I used to be not anticipating to see you,” she says, blushing. “My bag got here out first. And that by no means occurs!”
The 2 then head off on one in all their holidays within the rain-soaked woods, the place Alex desires to “observe the itinerary” to “greatest take pleasure in” their journey, and Poppy desires to simply “wing it.”
The BFF duo then jet-set throughout a number of different places, consuming scrumptious meals, laying out on the seashore and getting cozy whereas tenting.
“Are you guys, like, a factor?” somebody asks them throughout one getaway, to which they each reply — somewhat too shortly — “Oh no, we're simply pals.”
“Platonic journey companions,” Poppy claims earlier than the teaser cuts to her coming into a room in a gown and locking eyes with a mesmerized Alex.
Emily Bader, Tom Blyth Michele Ok. Quick/Netflix © 2025
Individuals We Meet on Trip debuted at No. 1 on the New York Occasions bestseller listing and spent multiple yr on the listing earlier than it was introduced in October 2022 that the novel could be tailored into a movie. Blyth, 30, and Bader, 28, have been revealed because the leads two years later, with Sarah Catherine Hook, Lucien Laviscount, Miles Heizer, Jameela Jamil, Tommy Do, Lukas Gage, Alice Lee, Molly Shannon and Alan Ruck making up the supporting forged.
When talking to Collider earlier this month, Blyth confessed that he hopes to please followers of the novel, however finally needed to “overlook” concerning the book-version of Alex with a view to “focus” on bringing the script to life.
“Clearly, the e-book was useful. I loved studying it and pulling little character issues from it,” he defined. “But when I begin getting too slowed down in honoring the e-book or fulfilling the dream of the e-book followers, then I can't deal with being current. My predominant job as an actor is to be current and attempt to be as human as doable. In the event you're enthusiastic about the e-book and the e-book fan as nicely, then you definitely're not being current. So, I learn it, I pulled from it, after which I attempted to place it to the aspect to simply be current.”
As for being forged reverse Bader, Blyth known as her the “modern-day Meg Ryan.”
“When Harry Met Sally is one in all my favourite movies, and undoubtedly my favourite rom-com. I all the time discover myself saying that, aside from Meg Ryan, who's nonetheless appearing, we don't have that bubbly, comedic, girl-next-door with a pointy wit. After which, I met Emily and I stated, ‘Oh, there she is,'” he recalled. “That was actually cool.”
Individuals We Meet on Trip hits Netflix on January 9, 2026.
