Amazon MGM Studios has offered a first look at Verity, its film adaptation of the bestselling psychological thriller by It Ends with Us author Colleen Hoover.
Directed by Michael Showalter, a frequent hire of the studio’s who reteams with Anne Hathaway on the heels of their rom-com The Idea of You, Verity follows Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson), a struggling writer who is hired to complete a successful book series after its author, Verity Crawford (Hathaway), is incapacitated. Once inside the Crawford home, she becomes entangled with Verity’s husband Jeremy (Josh Hartnett) and uncovers an unfinished manuscript that may reveal disturbing truths about the author.
Today in Las Vegas, Amazon MGM unveiled a for-the-room only trailer. The two women meet, Lowen is shocked to find Verity in the state she is. “Can she speak? Does she know what’s going on?” ask Lowen but prepares to assemble her notes and outlines. Jeremy assures her that if anyone was to take over Verity’s series, he’d want it to be someone whose work she respected. Did she? Does she? It getse creepy. And what’s between Verity and Jeremy?
Also starring Ismael Cruz Córdova and Brady Wagner, Verity hits theaters on October 2. It’s one of a number of book-to-film adaptations based on the work of BookTok phenomenon Hoover, on the heels of Sony’s It Ends with Us, which broke out as an outsized commercial success at a worldwide gross exceeding $351 million, even as a legal battle between the film’s key creatives Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni threatened to overshadow that success. Paramount followed that film up quickly with Regretting You, a Hoover adaptation starring Allison Williams, Mckenna Grace, Dave Franco and Mason Thames, which grossed over $90 million, and then there was Universal’s Reminders of Him, starring Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers, which did over $84M in theaters when it opened last month.
