Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett are set to star alongside Anne Hathaway in Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming book-to-screen characteristic Verity. Michael Showalter is helming the challenge with a script from Nick Antosca.
Primarily based on the No. 1 New York Instances bestseller by Colleen Hoover, prior drafts for the movie had been penned by Hoover, Lauren Levine, Hillary Seitz, Angela LaManna, Will Honley, and April Maguire. The movie is ready for a theatrical launch.
Producers for the challenge embrace Eat the Cat’s Antosca and Alex Hedlund, Semi-Formal Productions’ Showalter and Jordana Mollick, Someplace Photos’ Hathaway, Heartbones Leisure’s Hoover, and Shiny Penny’s Stacy Sher. Dakota Johnson will government produce, together with Heartbones Leisure’s Lauren Levine.
The story of Hoover’s Verity follows Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling author on the point of monetary destroy, as she accepts the job provide of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling thriller creator Verity Crawford, hires Ashleigh to finish the remaining books in a profitable sequence that his spouse is unable to complete following a mysterious accident.
Upon arriving on the opulent Crawford property, nevertheless, Ashleigh begins questioning if Verity’s manuscripts are a mere work of fiction, chilling admissions, or an ominous warning by a deranged psychopath.
Whereas Hathaway will painting Verity within the movie, Hartnett will tackle the function of her husband. Johnson, in the meantime, will play Ashleigh.
Verity was self-published in 2018 earlier than gaining fame through BookTok and Bookstagram in 2021. The gothic, psychosexual thriller novel bought 1 million copies in 2023 alone.
Hoover has been on a hit streak recently. Her different No. 1 bestseller, It Ends With Us, just lately acquired a film adaptation starring Blake Energetic and Justin Baldoni in lead roles. Launched in theaters on August 9, the movie raked in $346 million on the worldwide field workplace.
Johnson was most just lately seen in Daddio reverse Sean Penn. She is going to subsequent seem in two extremely anticipated tasks: Celine Track’s Materialists and Michael Angelo Covino’s Splitsville.
Hartnett has had a powerful couple of years himself. He just lately portrayed Ernest Lawrence within the Oscar-winning Oppenheimer. He additionally appeared in an episode of the hit sequence The Bear and starred on this summer time’s M. Evening Shyamalan movie Entice.
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