Netflix has optioned the rights to Annie Barrows’ New York Times bestselling book series Ivy & Bean and will adapt into one-hour family films. Elissa Down (Feel the Beat, The Honor List) is set to direct, Ivy & Bean reunites Netflix with Down after she directed the hit dance-comedy film Feel the Beat starring Sofia Carson, Wolfgang Novogratz and also Lidya Jewett. Keslee Blalock (Family Camp, Pulled from Darkness) as “Ivy”; Madison Skye Validum as “Bean”; Lidya Jewett (Good Girls, Feel the Beat, Nightbooks) as “Nancy” have been announced in major roles.

Ivy and Bean never expected to be friends. Ivy is quiet, thoughtful and observant. Bean is playful, exuberant and fearless. However, sometimes an adventure reveals that opposites can become the best of friends.