You should have had faith in your movie! It was good! You don’t need to resort to cheap tricks to hook your viewers, they probably would have watched the sequel regardless. This is a very cheap effort and gives me the impression they didn’t believe the rest of the movie stood on its own and would have a good enough reception to warrant adapting the sequel. The other negative impression this gives, is that they were just trying to hook the viewers for the next movie. So the filmmakers had the resources available to them they knew the plots of the books beforehand. Even the final book in the trilogy Always and Forever, Lara Jean, was published in 2017 before production started. Production for the first movie began in 2017, whereas the sequel was already published in 2015. Especially since the filmmakers knew going into it that this character was going to be a major part of the second movie, why didn’t they plan ahead for that? If they were going to retcon his entrance anyway, why even include it? It makes it look like they didn’t know what was going to happen next, which makes the sequel seem forced. This isn’t a terribly uncommon thing in the industry, but it does make me feel bad for Jordan Burtchett. Most articles think the most likely reason for the recast was that Jordan Fisher had more resume credits than Jordan Burtchett. I read a few articles trying to figure out why the recast happened, but there is no official reason released that I found.

However, in the second movie, he mails a letter to Lara Jean, which is the catalyst of the story, and then they run into each other at Belleview. The first movie ends with John Ambrose showing up at Lara Jean’s door with flowers and the letter.

Not only did they recast him though, they changed his entire entrance to the movie. The most blatant example of lack of consistency, is that they recast John Ambrose.

Ps i still love you book series order