Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett are joining the cast of the 'Verity' movie. The actors will star opposite Anne Hathaway in Amazon MGM's adaptation of the best-selling novel by author Colleen Hoover. Michael Showalter is directing the film that is planned for a theatrical release.
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00:00Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett are joining the cast of The Verity Movie.
00:05The actors will star opposite Anne Hathaway in Amazon MGM's adaptation of the best-selling novel
00:10by author Colleen Hoover. Michael Showalter is directing the film that is planned for a theatrical
00:15release. The film will see Johnson play struggling writer Lohan Ashley, who is hired by Jeremy
00:20Crawford, set to be portrayed by Josh Hartnett. To complete the remaining books in a series written
00:25by his wife, author Verity Crawford, will be played by Hathaway, who has suffered a mysterious
00:30accident. Lohan soon learns that a secret, unfinished manuscript may reveal clues about
00:35the family's past. Johnson is also now among the film's executive producers. Hoover shared
00:40the news of the new castings on Instagram, writing, "'Excited' is an understatement."
00:45The film adaptation of Hoover's novel It Ends With Us, that was released this year,
00:48made $149 million domestically and $351 million worldwide.
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