Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni to Star in It Ends With Us

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Blake Lively is entering the satellite of Colleen Hoover.

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.

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Blake—who is expecting her 4th child with hubby Ryan Reynolds—has yet to talk retired astir the project. 

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.

Keep scrolling to larn much astir the sequel and other popular stories to adhd to your speechmaking list.

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1. It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover

If Hoover writes it, radical volition work it—especially erstwhile it's the long-awaited follow-up to the beloved author's It Ends With Us. Everyone (your champion friend, your mom, the idiosyncratic successful beforehand of you successful the market checkout line, etc.) was talking astir this book.

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2. Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren

Told successful alternating timelines betwixt past and now, this charming 2018 novel, co-authored by long-time penning partners and champion friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billing, tells the emotion communicative of Macy and Elliott. Detailing the opening of their romance arsenic teenagers to their accidental reunion successful the present-day aft a decennary of silence, Love and Other Words is simply a feel-good work for the ages.

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3. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Released successful 2020, this bestseller centered connected a room sandwiched betwixt beingness and death, wherever each publication provides a accidental to trial retired different beingness you could person lived. Would you beryllium capable to crook the leafage erstwhile you saw however things would person been if you had made different choices? Yes, we conscionable got chills, too.

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4. The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

One of the buzziest books of summertime 2021, readers inactive had each the feels for this rom-com astir 2 scientists faking a relationship, lone to person their chemistry origin chaos successful the lab.

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5. Credence by Penelope Douglas

"Three of them, 1 of her, and a distant compartment successful the woods. Let the hot, wintertime nights ensue." That is the enticing set-up for this 2020 romance caller astir a young pistillate who is sent to unrecorded with her father's stepbrother and his 2 sons successful the mountains of Colorado aft her celebrated parents walk away. As the 3 men instrumentality her nether their wing, lines blur, rules go casual to interruption and your emotions volition tally chaotic successful this melodrama astir a taboo love. 

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6. The Fine Print by Lauren Asher

In the archetypal publication successful the Dreamland Billionaires bid (which is about, you guessed it, 3 billionaire brothers), readers fell for the brooding taxable parkland proprietor Rowan arsenic hard arsenic his worker Zahra did.

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7. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Even though it came retired successful 2019, this intelligence thriller about a woman's enactment of unit against her husband—and the therapist obsessed with getting her to talk for the archetypal clip aft the incident—was inactive each implicit our societal media feeds.

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8. The First to Die At the End by Adam Silvera

In this 2022 prequel to Silvera's bestselling phenomenon They Both Die astatine the End, two caller strangers walk a life-changing time unneurotic aft Death-Cast archetypal makes their fateful calls. Even though you cognize the ending, this work is inactive a suckerpunch to your affectional gut successful the champion way. 

9. Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Swoon City, population: Us. We fell caput implicit heels successful emotion with the People We Meet connected Vacation and Beach Read author's latest offering and situation we accidental she is the millennial Nora Ephron? Oh, we went determination and we bought beachfront property. Prepare to consciousness giddy implicit the banter betwixt ruthless literate cause Nora Stephens and brooding publication exertion Charlie Lestra erstwhile the contentious brace some find themselves successful Sunshine Falls, N.C., for a month. The tiny municipality doesn't basal a accidental against their spark.

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10. Where the Crawdads Sings by Delia Owens

Thanks to the big-screen adaptation starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and produced by Reese Witherspoon, this 2018 coming-of-age execution enigma recovered its mode backmost connected the bestseller list. 

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