A movie adaptation of creator Colleen Hoover‘s bestselling romantic thriller “Verity” is in growth at Amazon MGM Studios.
Hillary Seitz (“The Unforgivable,” “Insomnia”) is at the moment writing the script. Eat the Cat’s Nick Antosca and Alex Hedlund will produce.
“Verity” follows Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling author getting ready to monetary destroy when she accepts the job supply of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling thriller creator Verity Crawford, has employed Lowen to finish the remaining books in a profitable sequence that his spouse is unable to complete after a mysterious accident.
Upon arrival on the lavish Crawford property, Lowen slowly learns that issues should not precisely as they appear with the invention of a secret, unfinished manuscript which will reveal chilling admissions in regards to the household’s previous. As Lowen ingratiates herself with Jeremy and his younger son Crew, she should discern if Verity’s writings are merely lurid works of fiction or an ominous warning by a deranged psychopath.
“Verity” was self-published by Hoover in 2018 and was later acquired by Grand Central Publishing in 2021. It has spent months on the New York Times Best Sellers checklist, promoting multiple million copies in 2023 alone. The novel is a gothic, psychosexual thriller within the vein of “Rebecca” and “Gone Girl.”
This will mark the second main Hollywood adaptation of Hoover’s work, with Sony’s “It Ends With Us” hitting theaters on Aug. 9. That movie stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, who can also be directing the venture. Jenny Slate and Brandon Sklenar additionally seem.
The Hollywood Reporter was first to report the information.