Anne Hathaway has signed on to star in Amazon MGM's upcoming big screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover's best-selling book "Verity". The film is directed by Michael Showalter ("The Eyes of Tammy Faye", "The Idea of You"). The script is penned by Nick Antosca ("The Act", "A Friend of the Family") from previous drafts by Hillary Seitz, Angela LaManna and Will Honley & April Maguire. The film will be released in theaters.
Hathaway stars as Verity Crawford, a famous author who is unable to finish her thriller novel after a car accident leaves her badly injured and incapacitated. 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. Hathaway, Hoover and Showalter will serve as producers under their respective banners of Somewhere Pictures, Heartbones Entertainment and Semi-Formal Productions. Additional producers include Antosca of Eat the Cat, Jordana Mollick of Semi-Formal and Stacey Sher of Shiny Penny. Lauren Levine of Heartbones will executive produce. "Verity" falls under Semi-Formal's first-look film deal with Amazon MGM.
"Verity" was self-published in 2018 and spent months on the New York Times best-sellers list and sold more than 1 million copies in 2023. Hoover also wrote the hit novel "It Ends With Us", which was adapted into a box-office sleeper hit directed by Justin Baldoni and starring Blake Lively. A film version of Hoover's book "Reminders of Him" is in the works at Universal Pictures.
Hathaway can next be seen in David Lowery's melodrama "Mother Mary" and the sci-fi film "Flowervale Street". She's also set to reprise her role in Disney's "The Princess Diaries 3".
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