Guarding Stars: Book vs. Movie
Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum's 2026 film Guarding Stars draws on Katherine Center's book The Bodyguard. Leighton Meester plays a bodyguard posing as the partner of Jared Padalecki's actor during a Christmas visit to his family.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Katherine Center
- Year
- 2022
- Pages
- 336Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 9 hr 44 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Patti Murin
Professional bodyguard Hannah Brooks is hired to protect actor Jack Stapleton from a stalker while he visits his sick mother in Texas. Jack wants to keep the threat from his family, so Hannah must pose as his girlfriend at their ranch. Maintaining that cover means spending time with a man whose private life complicates both her assignment and her determination to keep her feelings out of it.
- Director
- Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum
- Year
- 2026
- Network
- Netflix
- Cast
- Leighton Meester, Jared Padalecki, Noah LaLonde, Walker Hayes
- Genre
- Christmas film, romantic comedy film
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
A bodyguard spends Christmas at a Montana ranch protecting a famous actor while posing as his romantic partner. The cover story puts her inside his family celebrations, where keeping a professional distance becomes increasingly difficult. What should be a temporary assignment grows complicated as their apparent relationship begins to carry feelings neither can easily dismiss.
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