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Despite the ongoing legal drama surrounding It Ends With Us, the film was a very successful adaptation. With no chance of a sequel in the future, author Colleen Hoover is focusing on other adaptations.

In a new post on her Facebook group, Colleen Hoover's CoHorts, the author shared light on the upcoming adaptations. She has three films in development, including Verity, Reminders of Him, and Regretting You. The post comes just one day after Deadline confirmed the full cast of the upcoming Verity adaptation.

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Before It Ends With Us, which Justin Baldoni acquired in 2019, Hoover didn't have a lot of success with adaptations. One of her hit novels, 2014's Ugly Love, was expected to become an adaptation starring Nick Bateman, but the project was abandoned,...

Back in November, it was announced that Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada) had signed on to play the title character in an adaptation of It Ends with Us author Colleen Hoover’s thriller novel Verity. Soon after, we heard that Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey) and Josh Hartnett (Trap) had joined her in the cast. Now, Deadline reports that five more actors have signed on to be in the film: Ismael Cruz Cordóva (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, pictured above), Brady Wagner (Broadway’s Merrily We Roll Along), Irina Dvorovenko (And Just Like That…), K.K. Moggie (The Good Wife), and Michael Abbott Jr. (The Drama). Details on the characters these new additions will be playing have not been revealed.

Hathaway’s character is Verity Crawford, a famous author who is unable to finish her latest thriller novel after a car accident leaves her badly injured and incapacitated.

It's been less than two weeks since The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power was renewed for Season 3, and now one of the show's biggest stars has officially found his next project. A new report from Deadline revealed that Ismael Cruz Cordóva, best known for portraying Arondir in the first two seasons of Prime Video's Rings of Power series, has been set for a role inVerity, the adaptation of Colleen Hoover's novel of the same name. Cordóva isn't the only one to join the cast; he's also flanked by Brady Wagner (Merrily We Roll Along), Irina Dvorovenko (The Blacklist), K.K. Moggie (Gotham Knights), and Michael Abbott Jr. (The Drama). The script for Verity comes from Nick Antosca and Hilary Seitz, and Michael Showalter has been tapped to direct.

Exclusive: Amazon MGM Studios’ Verity, based on the #1 New York Times bestseller by Colleen Hoover, has five new cast additions: Ismael Cruz Cordóva (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power), Brady Wagner (Broadway’s Merrily We Roll Along), Irina Dvorovenko (And Just Like That…), K.K. Moggie (The Good Wife), and Michael Abbott Jr. (The Drama).

No word yet on the roles to be played by the newcomers. As previously announced, Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett will lead the ensemble of the theatrical feature, with Michael Showalter directing from a script by Nick Antosca. The film is one of a number of Hoover adaptations in the works on the heels of It Ends with Us, which proved a phenomenon upon its August 2024 release, with over $346M in worldwide box office receipts.

The story follows Lowen Ashleigh (Johnson), a struggling writer who is on the brink of financial...