Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett Join Anne Hathaway in Adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s ‘Verity’

Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett will star opposite Anne Hathaway in Amazon MGM’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-seller Verity.

Michael Showwalter is (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) is directing the film that is planned for a theatrical release. Nick Antosca, wrote the current script following the previous work of Hoover and Lauren Levine, scribes Hillary Seitz, Angela LaManna and the team of Will Honley and April Maguire.

Verity centers on struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh, who is hired by Jeremy Crawford to complete the remaining books in a series penned by his wife, author Verity Crawford (Hathaway), who has suffered a mysterious accident. Lowen soon learns that a secret unfinished manuscript may reveal clues about the family’s past. Amazon describes the book as a “gothic, psychosexual thriller in the vein of Rebecca and Gone Girl.” 

Johnson will play Ashleigh, the writer, while Hartnett will play Jeremy, the husband.

Serving as producers are Nick Antosca and Alex Hedlund for Eat the Cat, Showalter and Jordana Mollick for Semi-Formal Productions, Hathaway for Somewhere Pictures, Hoover for Heartbones Entertainment and Stacey Sher for Shiny Penny.

Johnson also boards as an executive producer, joining Heartbones Entertainment’s Lauren Levine.

Hoover has become one of Hollywood’s hottest book authors thanks to the success of It Ends With Us, starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. The Sony movie was released in theaters August 9, grossing over $346 million at the worldwide box office.