The actress, 35, volition prima successful the movie adaptation of the best-selling romance caller It Ends With Us, E! News confirms. She'll enactment alongside Jane the Virgin's Justin Baldoni, who is besides directing the film.
As for the behind-the-scenes team, some actors and the writer volition person originative accidental arsenic enforcement producers connected It Ends With Us. Other producers see Alex Saks (The Florida Project) and Christy Hall (I Am Not Okay With This), who is penning the script, per a property merchandise from Wayfarer Studios and Sony Pictures.
Blake and Justin are expected to play redheaded florist Lily Bloom and doctor Ryle Kincaid, respectively, with Colleen announcing earlier successful the time that she was preparing to uncover those characters' castings. The actor playing Lily's archetypal love Atlas has not been revealed.
"Lily hasn't ever had it easy, but that's ne'er stopped her from moving hard for the beingness she wants," reads the book synopsis. "She's travel a agelong mode from the tiny municipality wherever she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her ain business. And erstwhile she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything successful Lily's beingness seems excessively bully to beryllium true."
This isn't Blake's archetypal clip bringing a complicated book quality to life. She precocious starred arsenic Emily successful A Simple Favor (based connected the Darcey Bell novel) and, of course, arsenic Serena in Gossip Girl (based connected the publication series by Cecily von Ziegesar) from 2007 to 2012.
Though it came out in 2016, It Ends With Us recently blew up connected TikTok. Colleen released the sequel It Starts with Us in October 2022, which landed connected BookTok's apical 10 trending searches of the year.
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