Verity, considered one of Colleen Hoover‘s best-selling novels, is the author’s subsequent mission to get a big-screen adaptation, with the movie’s first trailer arriving at CinemaCon.
The footage was unveiled throughout Amazon’s presentation for theater homeowners and distributors in Las Vegas. Verity facilities on struggling author Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson), who’s employed by Jeremy Crawford (Josh Hartnett) to finish the remaining books in a collection penned by his spouse, creator Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway), after she suffers a mysterious accident. Lowen quickly learns {that a} secret unfinished manuscript might reveal clues in regards to the household’s previous.
The trailer started with Verity showing on Call Her Daddy in all her glory; lower to Lowen arriving at her and Jeremy’s gorgeous mansion and going via her closet earlier than being introduced to satisfy Verity, as she sits incapacitated in a wheelchair.
“Can she speak? Does she even know what’s going on?” Lowen asks Jeremy, as he questions if she would have come if she had recognized the reality. She begins to undergo Verity’s notes, which retell the early days of her relationship with Jeremy — and is quickly tipped off that one thing is awry, when she sees Verity seemingly transfer about usually via a window.
“I feel like I’m losing my mind,” Lowen panics. That’s elevated when the 2 girls are sitting in entrance of one another and Verity out of the blue grabs Lowen’s face and kisses her, with a smirk as the 2 draw back. “You have this perfect life, everything anyone could ever want,” Lowen later says, earlier than declaring, “and I’m going to take it from you, all of it.”
Michael Showalter, who beforehand labored with Hathaway on 2024’s The Idea of You, is directing, with a wide theatrical release set for Oct. 2. Ismael Cruz Cordóva and Brady Wagner additionally spherical out the forged.
Hoover self-published Verity in 2018 earlier than Grand Central Publishing acquired it in 2021, and the e-book went on to turn into a New York Times best-seller. The creator serves a producer on the brand new movie, which is her fourth mission to be adapted in the previous few years, following It Ends With Us, Regretting You and Reminders of Him.
Verity can also be a part of a really busy 2026 for Hathaway, who simply in the following few weeks has Mother Mary and The Devil Wears Prada 2 hitting theaters, adopted by The Odyssey and The End of Oak Street coming later this 12 months.
