EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios‘ Verity, based on the #1 New York Times bestseller by Colleen Hoover, has five new cast additions: Ismael Cruz Cordóva (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power), Brady Wagner (Broadway’s Merrily We Roll Along), Irina Dvorovenko (And Just Like That…), K.K.
Moggie (The Good Wife), and Michael Abbott Jr. (The Drama). No word yet on the roles to be played by the newcomers. As previously announced, Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett will lead the ensemble of the theatrical feature, with Michael Showalter directing from a script by Nick Antosca.
The film is one of a number of Hoover adaptations in the works on the heels of It Ends with Us, which proved a phenomenon upon its August 2024 release, with over $346M in worldwide box office receipts.
The story follows Lowen Ashleigh (Johnson), a struggling writer who is on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime.
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