Yep, you heard it right: another of Colleen Hoover’s novels is getting the big-screen treatment, this time with Anne Hathaway in the lead. Like many of Hoover’s books, Verity was a veritable (pun intended) BookTok sensation, for better and for worse. It was self-published in 2018 and has since sold over 2 million copies.
Following the success of It Ends With Us (drama aside), Hoover’s Verity will boast an even more star-studded cast and is sure to generate hype. Here’s everything we know about the project.
What is the plot of Verity?
SPOILERS HERE: It’s Jane Eyre by way of true crime. Struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson) is offered the opportunity of a lifetime when Jeremy Crawford (Josh Hartnett), the husband of paralysed novelist Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway), invites her to finish Verity’s series of novels. While living in the Crawford home, Lowen discovers writing by Verity that suggests she is actually a sociopathic child murderer. At the same time Lowen begins to suspect that Verity, confined to a bed in the home, may not be as paralysed as she seems, and she and Jeremy can’t deny the growing attraction between them.
Who has been cast in Verity?
Dakota Johnson, Josh Hartnett, and Anne Hathaway are set to play Lowen and the Crawfords, respectively, with Ismael Cruz Cordova, Irina Dvorovenko, Lou Martini Jr., Michael Abbott Jr., K.K. Moggie, and Brady Wagner also taking roles, per IMDb.
Josh Harnett and Dakota Johnson on set outside Grand Central Terminal in New York City on 12 March 2025Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Images
What about the creative team?
Michael Showalter is directing. Through primarily known for comedy, Showalter recently directed Hathaway in The Idea of You, another film based on a popular novel. Variety reports that the shooting script was penned by Nick Antosca after previous versions by Hoover and Lauren Levine; Hillary Seitz; Angela LaManna; and Will Honley and April Maguire.
When does it come out?
No release date has been set, but as of March 2025, filming is under way. Per Variety, it will have a theatrical release.
This post will be updated.
This article originally appeared on GLAMOUR (US).