EXCLUSIVE: Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett are set to star reverse Anne Hathaway in Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming function Verity. Michael Showalter is helming. Based on the No. 1 New York Times bestseller by Colleen Hoover, the present script is written by Nick Antosca. Prior drafts have been penned by Colleen Hoover & Lauren Levine, Hillary Seitz, Angela LaManna, and Will Honley & April Maguire. The movie might be launched in theaters.
Producers for the venture embrace Eat the Cat’s Antosca and Alex Hedlund, Semi-Formal Productions’ Showalter and Jordana Mollick, Somewhere Pictures’ Hathaway, Heartbones Entertainment’s Hoover and Shiny Penny Stacey Sher. Dakota Johnson will govt produce, together with Heartbones Entertainment’s Lauren Levine.. The movie will fall below Semi-Formal Productions’ first-look movie cope with 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 writer 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 will not be precisely as they appear with the invention of a secret, unfinished manuscript that will disclose chilling admissions in regards to 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 Girl.
Hoover has been on a streak as of late as her different No. 1 bestseller, It Ends With Us, starring Blake Lively 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 not too long ago seen in Daddio, a TeaTime Pictures manufacturing, by which she produced and starred reverse Sean Penn. Johnson will subsequent be seen in two extremely anticipated initiatives for which she not too long ago wrapped manufacturing; Celine Song’s Materialists and Michael Angelo Covino’s Splitsville. In 2019, Johnson launched TeaTime Pictures with producing accomplice, Ro Donnelly. Their first two function movies, Cha Cha Real Smooth and Am I OK? offered straight out of their respective premieres on the 2022 Sundance Film Festival to Apple TV+ and HBO Max. Cha Cha Real Smooth received the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award within the U.S. Dramatic class. Johnson stars in each movies. More not too long ago, Johnson and Donnelly govt produced The Disappearance of Shere Hite, by 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 yr marked her second time directing, for a brief movie titled Loser Baby from TeaTime Pictures and Boatrocker.Johnson is represented by CAA and Untitled.
Hartnett is coming off a robust couple years most not too long ago 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 likewise starred on this summer time’s M. Night Shymalan movie Trap. He additionally stars within the upcoming movie Fight or Flight which might be launched in 2025. Hartnett is represented by Entertainment 360 and Verve.
