Deadline Hollywood reported that Oscar-winning actress Anne Hathaway has signed on to star in the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel, Verity, in what will be a reunion between Hathaway and her ‘The Idea of You’ director Michael Showalter. Hathaway, Hoover and Showalter will also serve as producers of the film.
“Verity” was self-published in 2018 and spent months on the New York Times best-sellers list and selling more than 1 million copies in 2023 alone. Hathaway will portray Verity Crawford, ‘a famous author who is unable to finish her thriller novel after a car accident leaves her badly injured and incapacitated. So her husband Jeremy offers a struggling writer named Lowen a huge sum of money to complete the remaining books in the series. Lowen accepts the gig but uncovers dark secrets in the process — including an unfinished manuscript that hints at chilling admissions about Verity and her family’s past — leaving Lowen to determine if Verity is a gifted fictionist or deranged psychopath.’ The roles of Jeremy and Lowen have yet to be cast.
Hoover’s novel “It Ends With Us” became a box office hit over the summer. The film, directed by and starring Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively, grossed $349 million globally; while a film version of Hoover’s book “Reminders of Him” is in the works at Universal Pictures.
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