Hallmark Channel said Monday that Andie MacDowell (Cedar Cove) and Chad Michael Murray will indeed be co-starring in a new Hallmark Hall of Fame original film, The Beach House.

The film, about a woman who returns to her Southern roots to find love and save sea turtles, has begun production and will premiere in May 2018, according to the Channel. It had originally been announced for a 2016 release.

 “I love the connection to nature, preservation and saving turtles, and so I am grateful to Hallmark Channel, our wonderful cast, Dan Wigutow, Sue Tenney, and one of my favorite authors Mary Alice Monroe,” said MacDowell of the role when the film was announced.

Beach House is an adaptation of the Mary Alice Monroe novel series. Executive producers are Wigutow and Stephen Harmaty. Maria Nation and Tippi & Neal Dobrofsky will do the adaptation.

Hallmark Channel will develop a new original movie based on author Mary Alice Monroe’s novel The Beach House, the network said Monday.

The movie, which will air exclusively on Hallmark in 2016, will star Andie MacDowell (Cedar Cove) who will also serve as executive producer. The story follows a woman struggling through life who returns to her Southern roots and troubled family after an unusual request from her mother.

“The evocative prose of The Beach House is an exploration of strengths and weaknesses so eloquently portrayed in all of Mary Alice Monroe’s writing: agony against past mistakes, present pain and the hope of a brighter future,” said Michelle Vicary, Executive Vice President, Programming, Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries in a statement.