Anne Hathaway will be playing Verity! The Colleen Hoover best-seller is being made into a film from Amazon MGM Studios, and we’ve just learned that Anne will be portraying the title role with director Michael Showalter on board as well.
Cape Fear‘s Nick Antosca will write the script, which is based on Colleen‘s work. Keep reading to find out more… Here’s the synopsis, via Deadline: The story follows, Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer who is on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime.
Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling thriller author Verity Crawford (Hathaway), has hired Ashleigh to complete the remaining books in a successful series that his wife is unable to finish after a mysterious accident.
Upon arrival at the lavish Crawford estate, Ashleigh slowly learns that things are not exactly as they seem with the discovery of a secret, unfinished manuscript that may divulge chilling admissions about the family’s past.