Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett Take Part in Anne Colleen Hoover’s Verity Movie

Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett will star alongside Anne Hathaway in Amazon MGM’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel Verity.

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

Truth The focus is on struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh, who is commissioned by Jeremy Crawford to finish the remaining books in a series written by his wife, author Verity Crawford (Hathaway), who has suffered a mysterious accident. Lowen soon learns that a secret, unfinished manuscript may hold clues to the family’s past. Amazon describes the book as a “gothic, psychosexual thriller in the sense of Rebecca And Over, girl.”

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

Producers include 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 serves as an executive producer alongside Lauren Levine of Heartbones Entertainment.

Thanks to the success of , Hoover has become one of Hollywood’s hottest authors It ends with us, with Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. The Sony film was released in theaters on August 9th and grossed over $346 million worldwide.