Anne Hathaway To Star In Adaptation Of Colleen Hoover’s ‘Verity’ For Amazon MGM Studios And Michael Showalter
EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of the Amazon film The Idea of You, Anne Hathaway and director Michael Showalter have found their next big project to team up on. Hathaway is set to star in Amazon MGM Studios’ upcoming feature Verity, which Showalter is helming. Based on the No. 1 New York Times bestseller by Colleen Hoover, the current script is written by Nick Antosca. Prior drafts were penned by Hillary Seitz, Angela LaManna, and Will Honley & April Maguire. Sources say the film will be released in theaters.
Producers for the project include 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. Heartbones’ Lauren Levine will executive produce. The film will fall under Semi-Formal Productions’ first-look film deal with the studio.