Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett have joined Anne Hathaway within the Colleen Hoover thriller adaptation Verity
Final month, it was introduced that Anne Hathaway (The Satan Wears Prada) had signed on to play the title character in an adaptation of It Ends with Us writer Colleen Hoover’s thriller novel Verity. Now, Deadline stories that she’s being joined within the solid by Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Gray) and Josh Hartnett (Entice).
Hathaway’s character is Verity Crawford, a well-known writer who’s unable to complete her newest thriller novel after a automobile accident leaves her badly injured and incapacitated. So her husband Jeremy presents a struggling author named Lowen an enormous sum of cash to finish the remaining books within the sequence. Lowen accepts the gig however uncovers darkish secrets and techniques within the course of — together with an unfinished manuscript that hints at chilling admissions about Verity and her household’s previous — leaving Lowen to find out if Verity is a gifted fictionist or deranged psychopath. Johnson will probably be taking part in struggling author Lowen Ashleigh, with Hartnett as Verity’s husband, Jeremy Crawford.
The Verity novel has an ideal opening line: “I hear the crack of his skull before the spattering of blood reaches me.” Once I learn the ebook final yr, I used to be shocked that it hadn’t been given some sort of display screen adaptation but, as a result of the story appeared prefer it was crying out to be become a film or restricted sequence. It was additionally one of many horniest books I’ve ever paged by means of, as there’s a lot intercourse to examine in Verity’s memoir / manuscript, even Lowen will get uninterested in it. Will probably be attention-grabbing to see how the screenplay adaptation has been dealt with so we don’t simply get scene after scene of Johnson studying about Hathaway and Hartnett having intercourse.
The Verity adaptation is coming our means from Amazon MGM and director Michael Showalter, who beforehand labored with Hathaway on The Thought of You, one other adaptation of a preferred ebook that was filled with intercourse. Nick Antosca, whose credit embrace Hannibal, The Forest, Channel Zero, Model New Cherry Taste, Antlers, Sweet, and A Good friend of the Household, has written the newest model of the script. Older drafts of the screenplay had been written by Hillary Seitz, Angela LaManna, and the duo of Will Honley and April Maguire.
Hathaway, Hoover, and Showalter are producing the film by means of their firms Someplace Footage, Heartbones Entertainment, and Semi-Formal Productions. Antosca is producing for Eat the Cat, whereas Jordana Mollick of Semi-Formal and Stacey Sher of Shiny Penny are additionally producing. Lauren Levine of Heartbones will function government producer. Verity is a part of Semi-Formal’s first-look movie cope with Amazon MGM.
Verity is described as being a “gothic, psychosexual thriller in the vein of Rebecca and Gone Girl.”
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