My Oxford Year Trailer Brings the Romantic Novel to Netflix
Netflix has revealed the trailer and poster for My Oxford Year, the upcoming adaptation starring Sofia Carson and Corey Mylchreest. The film will begin streaming on August 1, 2025.
When Anna (Sofia Carson), an ambitious young American woman, sets out for Oxford University to fulfill a childhood dream, she has her life completely on track until she meets a charming and clever local (Corey Mylchreest) who profoundly alters both of their lives.
Directed by Iain Morris, the film is based on the 2018 novel by Julia Whelan. The screenplay is by Allison Burnett and Melissa Osborne.
The cast includes Sofia Carson (The Life List), Corey Mylchreest, Dougray Scott (Vigil), Catherine McCormack (Lockerbie: A Search for Truth), Harry Trevaldwyn, Esmé Kingdom, Nikhil Parmar, Poppy Gilbert, Romina Cocca, Yadier Fernández, Nia Anisah, and Hugh Coles.
The executive producers include Caroline Levy, Sofia Carson, Laura Char Carson, Christopher Simon, Maggie Monteith, and Pete Harris. Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Laura Quicksilver, and Isaac Klausner are the producers, while George Berman is the co-producer.
“Iain Morris wrote and created one of the most iconic shows in British television, The Inbetweeners,” Carson told the Netflix blog Tudum. “Comedy is his language, so his vision of this film beautifully created a timeless, heartbreaking, sweeping romance, grounded in laughter. Within one scene, you may fall madly in love, you may cry, but he will always make sure the joy of laughter is present.”
This was a story close to home for Mylchreest, who was born and bred in London and had his own version of an Oxford year. “I have a friend that studied for uni in Oxford, and so there was a period of my life where I was going up and getting the train to Oxford quite frequently,” the actor said.
Carson added, “I chose not to visit all the locations where we would be filming because I wanted to save my honest reaction to witnessing the magic of Oxford for the first time, for once the cameras were rolling, to truly experience Oxford just as Anna would.”
Carson continued, “It was an honor and joy to dive into Anna’s world of dreams, of love, of poetry. To study the great poets that walked the halls of Oxford, and who have since filled our lives with the magic of literature. In 1833, Alfred Tennyson wrote ‘It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.’
“Two hundred years after Tennyson so beautifully uttered those words, they ring truer than ever — in the halls of Oxford, and within the heart of our film. Our story is a film that in every frame reaffirms the belief that life is too short to not live it in love. To not live it in joy.”
Carson and Mylchreest’s chemistry drives the movie. “They bounced off each other from the first moment they worked together,” said director Iain Morris, “and clearly enjoyed trying to make each other laugh — and maybe cry?
“I hope watching the film allows the audience to run through all the emotions associated with the wonderful, noisy, chaotic, unexpected, funny, heartbreaking experience that is falling in love.”
The story hit close to home for producer Marty Bowen, who had a whirlwind romance of his own during a year he spent at Oxford. “It was a finite period of time that we were going to be there, like in the story. But it made the relationship that much more heightened because there was less pressure about where it was going to go. I actually think it’s those experiences that we take for granted. They become so much more important to you as memories of your life.”
“One of the things we’ve always loved about this story that I think resonates with so many people is, it’s not necessarily the quantity of time you spend with someone, but the quality of that time,” added producer Laura Quicksilver.
