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Anne Hathaway Follows in Blake Lively's Footsteps & Is Set to Star in Colleen Hoover's Next Movie Adaptation

And It Already Sounds Amazing

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Okay…I am officially in Anne Hathaway heaven. Another installment of The Princess Diaries, an official sequel to The Devil Wears Prada, confirmation that Hathaway and Zendaya are starring in Christopher Nolan’s next film and now this—the announcement that she and Michael Showalter are teaming up again for an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel Verity. This follows the success of their film The Idea of You, which is the film adaptation of Robinne Lee's romance novel.

Per a report from Deadline, the script is written by Nick Antosca. The official synopsis for Verity states that the film follows a struggling writer named Lowen Ashleigh, who accepts the ‘job of lifetime’ after a period of financial hardship, which sees her finishing the remaining novels in a series from author Verity Crawford after a car accident leaves her injured and incapacitated. 

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Upon accepting the job, however, the writer soon realizes that things aren’t exactly as they appear with Verity Crawford and her husband, leading to the question of whether the things she writes about are fiction, or the real-life events of a psychopath.

The movie is an Amazon MGM production and is set to be released in theaters. As for the backstory of Verity, the novel was initially self-published by Hoover in 2018, landing on the New York Times best-sellers list and selling millions of copies. The film adaptation of Hoover’s summer smash It Ends With Us starring Blake Lively netted a $349 million global return at the box office on a $25 million budget. 

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