Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett have both been confirmed to join the previously announced Anne Hathaway for Verity, an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s 2018 book. Amazon MGM Studios is backing the film, which will see Hathaway again link up with director Michael Showalter, whom she previously worked with on The Idea of You.
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Here is the latest news on the film. It was announced back in 2020 that Amazon Studios had the rights for the adaptation, with the screenplay being produced by April Maguire and Will Honley. Hartnett will play Verity’s husband Jeremy while Johnson will play Lowen Ashleigh.
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Meanwhile, fans can purchase and stream It Ends With Us on Apple TV+ and Prime Video. Lowen Ashleigh, a writer on the verge of financial collapse, accepts “the job offer of a lifetime” in Verity. Ashleigh starts working for Verity Crawford, a successful novelist, and her husband, Jeremy Crawford, after Verify is incapacitated in a mysterious car accident.
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Ashleigh discovers that things are not as they seem when she gets to the Crawford mansion. Through an incomplete manuscript, she unearths a mystery that could reveal terrifying details about the family's past, including murder. Ashleigh must decide as she works if Verity's writing show the warning signs of a psychopath or are merely the product of a darkly imaginative mind.
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