Yep, you heard it proper: one other of Colleen Hoover’s novels is getting the big-screen remedy, this time with Anne Hathaway within the lead. Like lots of Hoover’s books, Verity was a veritable (pun supposed) BookTok sensation, for higher and for worse. It was self-published in 2018 and has since offered over 2 million copies.
Following the success of It Ends With Us (drama apart), Hoover’s Verity will boast an much more star-studded solid and is bound to generate hype. Right here’s all the pieces we all know in regards to the undertaking.
What’s the plot of Verity?
SPOILERS HERE: It’s Jane Eyre by the use of true crime. Struggling author Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson) is obtainable the chance of a lifetime when Jeremy Crawford (Josh Hartnett), the husband of paralysed novelist Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway), invitations her to complete Verity’s sequence of novels. Whereas dwelling within the Crawford residence, Lowen discovers writing by Verity that means she is definitely a sociopathic baby assassin. On the identical time Lowen begins to suspect that Verity, confined to a mattress within the residence, is probably not as paralysed as she appears, and she or he and Jeremy can’t deny the rising attraction between them.
Who has been solid in Verity?
Dakota Johnson, Josh Hartnett, and Anne Hathaway are set to play Lowen and the Crawfords, respectively, with Ismael Cruz Cordova, Irina Dvorovenko, Lou Martini Jr., Michael Abbott Jr., Ok.Ok. Moggie, and Brady Wagner additionally taking roles, per IMDb.
Josh Harnett and Dakota Johnson on set exterior Grand Central Terminal in New York Metropolis on 12 March 2025Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Photographs
What in regards to the artistic workforce?
Michael Showalter is directing. By primarily identified for comedy, Showalter just lately directed Hathaway in The Concept of You, one other movie primarily based on a preferred novel. Selection reviews that the capturing script was penned by Nick Antosca after earlier variations by Hoover and Lauren Levine; Hillary Seitz; Angela LaManna; and Will Honley and April Maguire.
When does it come out?
No launch date has been set, however as of March 2025, filming is below manner. Per Selection, it’s going to have a theatrical launch.
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This text initially appeared on GLAMOUR (US).
