EXCLUSIVE: Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett are set to star reverse Anne Hathaway in Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming characteristic Verity. Michael Showalter is helming. Based mostly on the No. 1 New York Instances bestseller by Colleen Hoover, the present script is written by Nick Antosca. Prior drafts had been penned by Colleen Hoover & Lauren Levine, Hillary Seitz, Angela LaManna, and Will Honley & April Maguire. The movie shall be launched in theaters.
Producers for the challenge embrace Eat the Cat’s Antosca and Alex Hedlund, Semi-Formal Productions’ Showalter and Jordana Mollick, Someplace Photos’ Hathaway, Heartbones Leisure’s Hoover and Shiny Penny Stacey Sher. Dakota Johnson will govt produce, together with Heartbones Leisure’s Lauren Levine.. The movie will fall below Semi-Formal Productions’ first-look movie take care of the studio.
The story follows, Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling author who’s on the point of monetary break when she accepts the job provide of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford (Hartnett), husband of bestselling thriller creator Verity Crawford (Hathaway), has employed Ashleigh (Johnson) to finish the remaining books in a profitable collection that his spouse is unable to complete after a mysterious accident. Upon arrival on the lavish Crawford property, Ashleigh slowly learns that issues should not precisely as they appear with the invention of a secret, unfinished manuscript which will reveal chilling admissions concerning the household’s previous. As Lowen ingratiates herself with Jeremy and his younger son Crew, she should discern if Verity’s writings are merely lurid works of fiction or an ominous warning by a deranged psychopath.
Verity was self-published in 2018 and grew right into a phenomenon that was acquired by Grand Central Publishing in 2021. It has spent months on the bestsellers listing, promoting greater than 1 million copies in 2023 alone. The novel is a gothic, psychosexual thriller within the vein of Rebecca and Gone Lady.
Hoover has been on a streak as of late as her different No. 1 bestseller, It Ends With Us, starring Blake Full of life and Justin Baldoni, was launched in theaters August 9, bringing in $346 million on the worldwide field workplace. Since that debut, her properties have gained a ton of momentum round city and Amazon MGM moved quick to get this subsequent one into manufacturing.
Johnson was most lately seen in Daddio, a TeaTime Photos manufacturing, during which she produced and starred reverse Sean Penn. Johnson will subsequent be seen in two extremely anticipated tasks for which she lately wrapped manufacturing; Celine Tune’s Materialists and Michael Angelo Covino’s Splitsville. In 2019, Johnson launched TeaTime Photos with producing accomplice, Ro Donnelly. Their first two characteristic movies, Cha Cha Actual Clean and Am I OK? offered straight out of their respective premieres on the 2022 Sundance Movie Pageant to Apple TV+ and HBO Max. Cha Cha Actual Clean received the Sundance Movie Pageant Viewers Award within the U.S. Dramatic class. Johnson stars in each movies. Extra lately, Johnson and Donnelly govt produced The Disappearance of Shere Hite, during which Johnson is featured because the voice of Shere Hite. Johnson made her directorial debut in 2019 with Coldplay’s music video, “Cry Cry Cry”. This 12 months marked her second time directing, for a brief movie titled Loser Child from TeaTime Photos and Boatrocker.Johnson is represented by CAA and Untitled.
Hartnett is coming off a robust couple years most lately portrayed Ernest Lawrence within the critically acclaimed and award-winning Christopher Nolan movie Oppenheimer. He additionally appeared in an episode of the hit collection The Bear and in addition starred on this summer season’s M. Evening Shymalan movie Lure. He additionally stars within the upcoming movie Combat or Flight which shall be launched in 2025. Hartnett is represented by Leisure 360 and Verve.
