It Ends With Us Author Reacts to Film Backlash
Another Colleen Hoover book is getting the metallic surface treatment.
Just 3 months earlier the premiere of the Blake Lively-starring It Ends With Us, the movie adaptation of the author's best-selling 2016 caller of the aforesaid name, different movie based connected her standalone thriller Verity is successful the works at Amazon MGM Studios, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Hoover besides confirmed the task by resharing the nonfiction connected her Instagram Story May 1.
Neither a formed oregon manager person been announced, though THR reports that Hillary Seitz—the screenwriter down nail-biters specified as Insomnia, Eagle Eye and The Unforgivable—is penning the script. Meanwhile, Nick Antosca and Alex Hedlund are reportedly attached arsenic producers.
First self-published by Hoover successful 2018, Verity follows Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer who is hired by the hubby of best-selling writer Verity Crawford to decorativeness her remaining novels arsenic she lies successful a coma from a mysterious accident. While connected the job, Lowen discovers Verity's unfinished memoir that is filled with chilling details astir her concealed life, including what truly happened to her precocious daughter. As Lowen begins to make feelings for Verity's husband, she indispensable effort discern fabrication from the family's complicated reality.
Hoover confirmed successful 2022 that she had sold the movie rights to the novel. However, she noted astatine the clip that it "doesn't mean it volition travel to fruition."
"I've sold a batch of movie rights that yet reverted backmost to maine if the producers couldn't get the task disconnected the ground," she shared successful a GoodReads Q&A. "I'm hoping this 1 works out, though! I deliberation it would beryllium amusive to see Verity as a movie."
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As for her thoughts connected the It Ends With Us movie? "I got to spot the footage they filmed frankincense far," she told Today last June. "I'm not a crier. I cognize that I constitute affectional books but I'm not an affectional person. And I cried truthful overmuch connected set."
Hoover added, "I'm highly happy, and present my expectations are up and I'm going to support them there."
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