Verity will be another novel of Hoover adapted next. The adaptation of her book, It Ends With Us, starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, was making waves (and gossip!) all over the world, having grossed over $346 million at the box office worldwide.
Josh Hartnett continued his career resurgence with an appearance in the film version of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling psychological thriller, Verity. The movie, starred by Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway, is highly anticipated and already generating much attention.
Josh Hartnett is experiencing a notable resurgence in his acting career. He has been cast as Jeremy Crawford in the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling thriller, “Verity,” alongside Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway. In the story, Hartnett’s character is the husband of Hathaway’s character, Verity, a bestselling author who becomes incapacitated after a mysterious accident. Johnson introduces the struggling writer, Lowen Ashleigh, hired by Jeremy to finish the remaining parts of Verity’s book series but discovers some disquieting truths related to the Crawford family.
This role continues Hartnett’s recent career resurgence, which includes his portrayal of physicist Ernest Lawrence in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” and a guest appearance on the acclaimed series “The Bear.” He also led M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller, “Trap,” where he played Cooper Abbott, a serial killer known as “The Butcher.”
On the personal front, Hartnett and his wife, actress Tamsin Egerton, have increased their family size. In early 2024, Hartnett privately revealed that they welcomed their fourth child.
Since the news broke that the acclaimed Anne Hathaway will be playing Verity Crawford in the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel Verity, which is being directed by Michael Showalter, one big question has been: Who will play struggling sexy writer Lowen Ashleigh? Well, we finally have an answer, and it’s the obvious choice: Dakota Johnson. Who else but the woman who breathed life into the Fifty Shades series could properly portray her?
In case you are lucky enough to be unfamiliar with the plot of this novel, it involves Lowen — who, again, is a sort of down-on-her-luck gal just trying to make it as a writer in New York City — entering into a torrid affair with businessman Jeremy Crawford, who has hired her to finish his semi-comatose wife’s manuscript (Verity Crawford is, of course, a best-selling author of thrillers). Josh Hartnett, just out of his stint as the hot dad with dubious intent in M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap, also comes aboard as our Jeremy.
As someone who normally feels the need to read a book before watching its adaptation, I think the silver lining here is that probably no one feels that pressure in this particular case. Why suffer through sentences like “It’s as if she were an egg, cracked open and poured out, and all that’s left are the tiny fragments of hard shell? Instead, off to the theater we go, where passion will surely be poured all over a fever dream of the most fevered sort.