Anne Hathaway to Star in Colleen Hoover Movie ‘Verity’

Anne Hathaway is headlining the adaptation of one of Colleen Hoover’s most popular novels.

The Oscar winner, 42, will star in the movie version of Verity, Hoover’s bestselling thriller that was first published in 2018, PEOPLE confirms. Hathaway and Hoover, 44, are among the movie’s producers.

Hathaway is reuniting with director Michael Showalter after they made The Idea of You together, the film adaptation of Robinne Lee’s romance novel that debuted earlier this year.

A synopsis for Verity describes the story as following a struggling writer named Lowen Ashleigh who, in need of money, accepts the “job offer of a lifetime.”

“Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling thriller author Verity Crawford (Hathaway), has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series that his wife is unable to finish after a mysterious accident.”

However, “upon arrival at the lavish Crawford estate, Lowen slowly learns that things are not exactly as they seem with the discovery of a secret, unfinished manuscript that may divulge chilling admissions about the family’s past. As Lowen ingratiates herself with Jeremy and his young son Crew, she must discern if Verity’s writings are merely lurid works of fiction or an ominous warning by a deranged psychopath.”

Hoover saw the first of her book-to-movie adaptations hit the big screen in August: It Ends with Us, starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, who also directed the romantic drama. Whether the sequel book, It Starts with Us, will get a movie treatment remains unclear, though the first film was a box-office success.

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Adaptations of other Hoover novels are in the works, including Reminders of Him (expected in theaters on February 2026) and Regretting You (starring Allison Williams, Mckenna Grace and Dave Franco).

Hathaway is also working on a third Princess Diaries movie, 20 years after the second film in that franchise, plus a Devil Wears Prada sequel is reportedly in the works.