Josh Hartnett has come on board Amazon MGM Studios' Verity, which has Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway headlining in lead roles.
The film is an adaptation of a book of the same name by author Colleen Hoover whose novel It Ends with Us was recently turned into a movie starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Verity will be directed by Michael Showalter, who also directed Hathaway in The Idea of You. His other directing credits include The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Big Sick, and The Lovebirds.
Nick Antosca penned the script, which will follow struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson), who gets hired as a ghostwriter by Jeremy Crawford (Josh Hartnett) to complete the unfinished book series that was being written by his wife, Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway), until her mysterious accident. However, Ashleigh soon realises the unfinished series might reveal some family secrets.
Antosca and Alex Hedlund are producing the movie for Eat the Cat alongside Showalter and Jordana Mollick for Semi-Formal Productions, Hathaway for Somewhere Pictures, Hoover for Heartbones Entertainment, and Stacey Sher for Shiny Penny.
Johnson was most recently seen in Sony's superhero movie Madame Web, co-starring Sydney Sweeney and Isabela Merced. Hartnett was last seen in M. Night Shyamalan's Trap.
Aside from Verity, more Colleen Hoover adaptations are expected to hit the screen, such as Reminders of Him, to be directed by Vanessa Caswill, who made Netflix’s adaptation of Jennifer E. Smith’s Love At First Sight. Universal will bring it to the big screen in 2026.
There's also Regretting You, which has Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) attached to direct the script written by Susan McMartin.
