Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Anne Hathaway will star in the upcoming film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling book “Verity.” She will play Verity Crawford, a famous author who is unable to finish her thriller novel after a car accident leaves her badly injured and incapacitated.
So her husband Jeremy offers a struggling writer named Lowen a huge sum of money to complete the remaining books in the series.
Lowen accepts the gig but uncovers dark secrets in the process — including an unfinished manuscript that hints at chilling admissions about Verity and her family’s past — leaving Lowen to determine if Verity is a gifted fictionist or deranged psychopath.
The roles of Jeremy and Lowen have yet to be cast. Michael Showalter, who worked with Hathaway on this year’s rom-com “The Idea of You,” is directing the film for Amazon MGM.
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