Anne Hathaway Reteaming With Director Michael Showalter to Adapt Colleen Hoover Novel VERITY

After the success of Amazon’s romantic drama feature The Idea of You, its star Anne Hathaway and director Michael Showalter are teaming up for a new adaptation.

Hathaway has signed on to star in Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming feature Verity, which Showalter is helming. Based on the No. 1 New York Times bestseller by Colleen Hoover (It Ends With Us), the current script is written by Nick Antosca.

Prior drafts were penned by Hillary Seitz, Angela LaManna, and Will Honley & April Maguire.  Sources say the film will be released in theaters.

The story follows Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer who is on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling thriller author Verity Crawford (Hathaway), has hired Ashleigh to complete the remaining books in a successful series that his wife is unable to finish after a mysterious accident.

Upon arrival at the lavish Crawford estate, Ashleigh slowly learns that things are not exactly as they seem with the discovery of a secret, unfinished manuscript that may divulge chilling admissions about the family’s past.

As Lowen ingratiates herself with Jeremy and his young son Crew, she must discern if Verity’s writings are merely lurid works of fiction or an ominous warning by a deranged psychopath.

Verity was self-published in 2018 and grew into a phenomenon that was acquired by Grand Central Publishing in 2021. It has spent months on the bestsellers list, selling more than 1 million copies in 2023 alone. The novel is a gothic, psychosexual thriller in the vein of Rebecca and Gone Girl.

Are you a fan of Hoover’s novels? Who else would you like to see star in this film alongside Hathaway?

via: Deadline