Anne Hathaway Joins the Hooververse

Anne Hathaway has always loved a book-to-screen adaptation, and she’s continuing her recent streak of them with a Colleen Hoover adaptation. According to Deadline, Hathaway is set to play the titular Verity in Hoover’s 2018 self-published novel Verity. The book gained so much popularity that in 2021, it was picked up by Grand Central Publishing, and now Michael Showalter is directing the movie for Amazon MGM Studios. You read that right, by the way: Verity Crawford is indeed the name of a character, and it’s not even the most insane one in the novel. I take your Lily Bloom and raise you a Lowen Ashleigh!

Following the success of It Ends With Us, Hoover’s first novel adapted for the screen, and flutters about the intentions of the film’s star, Blake Lively, and director in the rumor mill, Hathaway’s foray into the Hooververse features a novel with a darkness that’s similar to the author’s other books. Lowen is a struggling writer who witnesses a gruesome death in the mean streets of Manhattan on the first page. Verity is a much more successful, nationally famous writer of best-selling thrillers, recently so severely injured in a car accident that she’s in a semi-comatose state. Her husband, Jeremy, whose main personality traits are loving his children and being extremely hot, hires Lowen to finish the manuscripts Verity was working on before her accident. She moves into their massive estate, because obviously there are no digital files available for her to reference, and starts to realize that (spoiler alert ahead if you have not read the book) either Verity murdered her own children or simply writes fiction like a psychopath.

The good news is that Hathaway will be playing the villain of our story, a woman so obsessed with her husband that she might have murdered two of their children out of jealousy. Yes, this sounds like it might as well be the plot of a Lifetime movie. But have some faith! This actress has woven straw into gold before, and I, for one, cannot wait to watch her be unhinged, hot, and murderous. I’ll take this over a cursed prequel like It Starts With Us any day.

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