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Beautiful Disaster is a 2023 film based on the book of the same name. The movie was released on April 12, 2023, in the USA. It was written was directed by Roger Kumble.

Beautiful Disaster is available for streaming on Hulu.

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In Beautiful Disaster, bad-boy Travis Maddox (Sprouse) is exactly what college freshman Abby Abernathy (Gardner) needs and wants—to avoid. He spends his nights fighting in underground boxing matches, and his days as the ultimate college campus charmer. But Abby wants nothing to do with Travis. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, Travis offers her a simple bet: if he loses his next fight, he must remain sex-free for a month. If he wins, Abby must live in his apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that Abby’s dark past is about to emerge, and he may have finally met his match.

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On July 31, 2012, Warner Bros acquired screen rights to the Beautiful Disaster novel. They set Donald De Line as a producer.[1] Julia Hart was hired as the screenwriter. The option was up for renewal in February 2014 and the script completed in 2013. As of January 2014, there was no director attached to the film. McGuire was returned film rights in February 2014.

Seven years later, the screen rights had been acquired by Voltage Pictures. On October 25, 2021, news broke that the film was directed by Roger Kumble and starred Dylan Sprouse as Travis and Virginia Gardner as Abby. Austin North, Libe Barer, and Ethan Embry were also cast. The film was in production in Bulgaria. Brian Pitt and Mark Clayman produced alongside Jonathan Deckter, President and COO of Voltage. Executive producers were Voltage’s Nicolas Chartier, Lucas Jarach and McGuire.[2]

The movie was announced on December 8, 2021, the day filming for Beautiful Disaster wrapped. Series leads Virginia Gardner and Dylan Sprouse shared a video to the Beautiful Disaster Instagram account.[3] On March 4, 2022, director/writer Roger Kumble shared on Instagram that he was eight weeks into the directors cut.[4]

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  • When Shepley is using Abby's workout video, a picture of a butterfly in a jar is seen on the wall behind him. This is the book cover art from Beautiful Disaster.
  • There are several easter eggs and direct mentions to After We Collided, a fellow Voltage Pictures film that was directed by Roger Kumble in 2019.
    • In The Circle, red spray paint reads "H.S. T Forever", a reference to Hardin Scott and Tessa, the main characters of After We Collided along with "ZED" painted on one of the walls, indicating Zed from the After series and "Don't F*ck with Molly" who is also from After.
    • Shepley watches a portion of the movie, more specifically the NYE fight, on his couch. He cries over the Hessa breakup.
    • While at Abby's party, Parker is boring a fellow partier. To his left are a couple who are dressed up to resemble Hardin and Tessa from the NYE scene.
    • Also during Abby's party, Travis stands next to a guy with a black T-shirt on that reads "F*cking Trevor". This is a famous line from After We Collided that Hardin says about Trevor. Dylan Sprouse played Trevor in the film adaptation.
    • A billboard in Vegas advertises a song by Taylor Conrod called After Our Dawn. The font for the song title is the same one used for the After film series. The song itself was used in the third feature film, After We Fell, which Kumble did not direct.

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