Jared Padalecki and Leighton Meester cast in movie based on bestselling rom-com

Leighton Meester and Jared Padalecki have been cast in this Netflix rom-com

Any millennial who grew up watching Gossip Girl and Gilmore Girls will be overjoyed to find out that Blair Waldorf and Dean Forester have been cast in a rom-com.

Leighton Meester and Jared Padalecki have teamed up for a movie based on Katherine Center's beloved novel, The Bodyguard.

• Buy The Bodyguard here before the film comes out.

Netflix is adapting the novel for the small screen with Meester and Padalecki starring as Hannah Brooks and Jack Stapleton.

Padalecki will star as a famous actor who is dealing with a dangerous stalker.

Meester's character is hired to protect the star from his stalker, but things take a turn when he visits his family for the holidays and convinces his bodyguard to pretend to be his girlfriend, with the hope of easing his family's nerves about the stalker.

The full synopsis reads:

'She's got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she's an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker. He's got her heart. Jack Stapleton's a household name-captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity.

'But a few years back, in the wake of a family tragedy, he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid. They've got a secret. When Jack's mom gets sick, he comes home to the family's Texas ranch to help out. Only one catch: He doesn't want his family to know about his stalker. Or the bodyguard thing. And so Hannah, against her will and her better judgment-finds herself pretending to be Jack's girlfriend as a cover.

'Even though her ex, like a jerk, says no one will believe it. What could possibly go wrong? Hannah hardly believes it herself. But the more time she spends with Jack, the more real it all starts to seem. And there lies the heartbreak because it's easy for Hannah to protect Jack. But protecting her own, long-neglected heart? That's the hardest thing she's ever done.'

This rom-com is a millennial woman's dream with actors from two of the biggest shows from the early 2000s playing the leads.

Netflix has not yet confirmed a release date for The Bodyguard, but hopefully, we don't have too long to wait.

Buy The Bodyguard here and read it before the film comes out.