Colleen Hoover‘s bestselling novel Verity is getting the Hollywood treatment.
Amazon MGM Studios is developing an adaptation of the novel, with Eat the Cat’s Nick Antosca and Alex Hedlund on board to produce. Hillary Seitz is currently writing the script.
Verity was self-published in 2018 before being acquired by Grand Central Publishing in 2021. It grew into a phenomenon, spending months on The New York Times bestsellers list and selling more than one million copies in 2023 alone.
Verity follows a woman named Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer facing financial ruin who accepts the job of a lifetime…or so she thinks. The woman is hired by the husband of a bestselling thriller author named Verity Crawford to finish the remaining novels in Verity’s book series, as the author is unable to complete them after suffering a mysterious accident. However, when she arrives at the Crawford estate, Lowen soon realizes things may not be as they seem, and she discovers an unfinished manuscript that gives her a glimpse of the family’s not-so-perfect life. She then decides to figure out if Verity’s writing is purely fiction or not.
This isn’t the first time one of Hoover’s books has caught Hollywood’s eye. Her 2016 book It Ends With Us has been adapted into a Blake Lively vehicle that will hit theaters Aug. 9. Justin Baldoni co-stars in the movie and directed the romantic novel that has a screenplay by Christy Hall. Sony Pictures is distributing the film.
Hoover’s other book titles include the sequel to It Ends With Us, It Starts With Us, as well as Regretting You, Layla and Reminders of Him. In 2023, she was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
Antosca’s credits include the Hannibal TV series, The Act, Candy and most recently, A Friend of the Family. Antosca is represented by WME and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis. Hedlund has worked on As Above, So Below, as well as Candy, A Friend of the Family and Chucky.
Seitz wrote Christopher Nolan’s 2002 film Insomnia, as well as 2008’s Eagle Eye and 2021’s The Unforgivable. She is represented by UTA, 3 Arts Entertainment and Sloane Offer.
