Netflix Finally Sets Cast for 'Grown Ups' Adaptation
It’s been a year and a half since Netflix initially announced it had snapped up the rights to adapt Grown Ups, the best-selling novel by Irish writer Marian Keyes. Originally part of a blockbuster upcoming slate revealed in March 2024, Grown Ups was initially included in a line-up that produced the recently released Hostage (then under the title The Choice), the upcoming House of Guinness, and the blockbuster smash hit Adolescence. But though Grown Ups took a little more time to mature, it too is finally heading into production for the latter half of 2025.
Keyes is well known in the U.K. for her interconnected Walsh family series, which debuted in 1995 with Watermelon, and now encompasses eight novels total. However, the rights to the Walsh family books are currently owned by the BBC and are being loosely adapted as The Walsh Sisters. Grown Ups, which debuted in 2020, introduced a new clan, the Casey brothers, Johnny, Liam, and Ed, and their three wives: Jessie, married to Johnny; Nell, married to Liam; and Cara, married to Ed.
(The show initially threatened to change Johnny’s name to Rory to up the Irishness of it all, but as the casting line-up reveals, that’s been thankfully scrapped.)
