After Never Again, another book by Colleen Hoover will be adapted and Anne Hathaway will be the heroine

Anne Hathaway has just added a new project to her already busy schedule. While we will see her in the coming months in Flowervale Street, a science fiction film by David Robert Mitchell, and Mother Marya drama by David Lowery, the actress is also expected in the next film by Christopher Nolan, Paper Tiger, by James Gray, but also the sequels of Devil wears Prada et Princess in spite of herself. And as if that wasn't enough for her, Deadline tells us that she has just joined the cast of Veritya psychological thriller adapted from the novel of the same name by Colleen Hoover, one of the most popular novelists of the moment.

Anne Hathaway in the world of Colleen Hoover

The film will be directed by Michael Showalter and broadcast on Prime Video. A collaboration that has already proven its worth, because it is already this “trio” which is behind the success of the romantic comedy The idea of ​​being with you. In VerityAnne Hathaway will lend her features to the heroine, Verity Crawford, author of thrillers and married to the charming Jeremy. But her destiny changes when, after being the victim of a mysterious accident, she finds herself unable to finish the last book in a successful series. Her husband then calls on Lowen Ashleigh, a writer on the verge of ruin, to accomplish this mission… We do not yet know who will join Anne Hathaway in the casting of this film.

A new predictable success

The book Verity was published in 2018 across the Atlantic and like his first works, Colleen Hoover initially self-published it before it caught the eye of a publishing house and became a bestseller. Another of his successful novels, Never againwas recently adapted for the big screen with Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in the lead roles. The film was an unexpected hit and grossed nearly $350 million worldwide. box-office mondial. It also did not fail to suffer a lot of criticism, because during the promotion, Blake Lively “sold” it as a romantic comedy when it is a drama with a backdrop of domestic violence. A controversy which also makes Anne Hathaway fans fear the worst…