Thriller ‘Verity’ First Look: Stepping Into The Writing Life, Of Someone Else – CinemaCon

Amazon MGM Studios has offered a first look astatine Verity, its movie adjustment of nan bestselling psychological thriller by It Ends pinch Us writer Colleen Hoover.

Directed by Michael Showalter, a predominant prosecute of nan studio’s who reteams pinch Anne Hathaway connected nan heels of their rom-com The Idea of You, Verity follows Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson), a struggling writer who is hired to complete a successful book bid aft its author, Verity Crawford (Hathaway), is incapacitated. Once wrong nan Crawford home, she becomes entangled pinch Verity’s hubby Jeremy (Josh Hartnett) and uncovers an unfinished manuscript that whitethorn uncover disturbing truths astir nan author.

Today successful Las Vegas, Amazon MGM unveiled a for-the-room only trailer. The 2 women meet, Lowen is shocked to find Verity successful nan authorities she is. “Can she speak? Does she cognize what’s going on?” inquire Lowen but prepares to combine her notes and outlines. Jeremy assures her that if anyone was to return complete Verity’s series, he’d want it to beryllium personification whose activity she respected. Did she? Does she? It getse creepy. And what’s betwixt Verity and Jeremy?

Also starring Ismael Cruz Córdova and Brady Wagner, Verity hits theaters connected October 2. It’s 1 of a number of book-to-film adaptations based connected nan activity of BookTok arena Hoover, connected nan heels of Sony’s It Ends pinch Us, which collapsed retired arsenic an outsized commercialized occurrence astatine a worldwide gross exceeding $351 million, moreover arsenic a ineligible conflict betwixt nan film’s cardinal creatives Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni threatened to overshadow that success. Paramount followed that movie up quickly pinch Regretting You, a Hoover adjustment starring Allison Williams, Mckenna Grace, Dave Franco and Mason Thames, which grossed complete $90 million, and past location was Universal’s Reminders of Him, starring Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers, which did complete $84M successful theaters erstwhile it opened past month.