First Look at Verity's Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett on Set of Colleen Hoover Movie
Anne Hathaway is giving a bone-chilling performance in Verity.
Indeed, the Devil Wears Prada star portrays her creepiest role yet as fictional author Verity Crawford in the movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover's book—and the teaser trailer that dropped on April 27 proves exactly that.
The clip begins with author Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson) walking through the halls of a dimly lit home where she is living with Verity and her husband Jeremy Crawford (Josh Hartnett).
Lowen—who has been recruited by Jeremy to help finish the manuscript of Verity’s next book after she’s involved in an accident and unable to write—enters a bedroom and walks past Verity sleeping in bed, before making her way to Jeremy on a nearby couch.
She straddles him and the two begin to passionately make out—but things then take a dark turn when Lowen pulls away.
There, she sees Verity staring back at her with a sinister smile on her face in a trippy hallucination. And when Lowen tries to escape, Verity grabs the back of her head and pulls her in for another kiss. Finally, she is able to break free—but not without Verity causing a bloody injury to her mouth in the process.
Clearly disturbed by the mind games, Lowen lets out a blood-curdling scream.
The teaser then flashes through several shots of Verity and Lowen throughout the thriller, including moments where Verity is looking over her shoulders, Lowen is running through the snowy woods and Verity spies on Lowen and Jeremy hooking up.
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Scenes flash of glass shattering, blood running down a drain and even a chilling moment where Verity watches Lowen through her windows.
“Even with my generous warning, you’re going to continue to ingest my words,” Verity says in a voiceover. “But know one thing: There is no light where we’re going. Darkness ahead.”
The film—which is set to hit theaters on Oct. 2—is the second of Hoover’s books to be adapted for the big screen after 2024's It Ends With Us, which starred Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
For everything to know about the movie adaption of Verity, keep reading...
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What Is Verity About?
Verity is based on Colleen Hoover's best-selling novel of the same name.
In the 2018 romantic thriller, struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh is hired by Jeremy Crawford to finish the popular book series created by his famous author wife Verity Crawford after an accident leaves Verity unable to finish the project.
Lowen moves into the Crawfords' home and begins going through Verity's trove of notes on the books. But during this process, she finds Verity's unfinished autobiography containing shocking confessions. After initially deciding not to reveal the manuscript to Jeremy, Lowen has second thoughts once she forms feelings for him.
So far, it looks like the movie stays pretty close to the book. "Upon arrival at the lavish Crawford estate, Lowen 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,” the movie's logline, obtained by Variety, reads. "As Lowen ingratiates herself with Jeremy and his young son Crew, she must discern if Verity’s writings are merely lurid works of fiction or an ominous warning by a deranged psychopath."
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Anne Hathaway Is Playing Verity Crawford
Is Anne Hathaway really starring in Verity? If Miranda Priestly were here, she'd tell you to please bore someone else with your questions.
But it's true! In November 2024, Amazon MGM Studios confirmed The Devil Wears Prada star is playing the titular character in Verity.
While Anne has yet to comment on the casting herself, she was spotted on the movie's set in February 2025. And Colleen has made it clear she's thrilled to have the Oscar winner—who is also a producer for the film—on board.
"Verity is coming to theaters and I am so excited for this cast and the script and the director and the whole team bringing this to life," the author wrote on Facebook in November. "Cannot wait. More coming soon!"
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Dakota Johnson Is Portraying Lowen Ashleigh
More news did come soon, and fans were fifty shades of tickled pink to find out in December 2024 that Dakota Johnson was joining the cast as Lowen Ashleigh.
Like Anne, Dakota is also a producer on the film. In fact, the actress has a book club inspired by her pursuit for quality content for her production company TeaTime Pictures.
"There are a lot of people who do things like I do and they have book clubs, and I was always like, Oh, the way that I read books, it’s so different,” she told Bustle in March 2024. “I want to fall down the rabbit hole every time I read… to invest in the book, invest in the language, invest in the references."
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Josh Hartnett Is Cast as Jeremy Crawford
At the same time as Dakota's cast announcement, producers revealed that Josh Hartnett would be taking on the role of Jeremy Crawford.
Like his costars, the Black Hawk Down actor has stayed tight-lipped on Verity. However, he was seen filming with Anne in February.
After the three main stars were revealed, Colleen shared how she felt about the cast, noting in a December Instagram post "excited is an understatement."
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Michael Showalter Is Directing
Michael Showalter is back in the director's chair.
According to Variety, the filmmaker is directing Verity and serving as a producer alongside Anne, Colleen, Dakota and others.
Michael and Anne have worked together before, including on the 2024 film adaptation of The Idea of You.
As for the writer, Variety noted the current Verity script is penned by Nick Antosca—who's worked on TV shows like Candy and The Act—with previous versions written by Colleen and Lauren Levine, Hillary Seitz, Angela LaManna, as well as Will Honley and April Maguire.
BACKGRID
Filming Has Finished
Lights, camera, action!
Josh and Anne were photographed filming Verity in Queens, New York in February 2025. For one scene, The Princess Diaries alum wore a high-neck, semi-sheer white dress that she accessorized with a matching belt, sunglasses and leopard-print heels.
As for the Black Mirror alum, he donned a gray shirt underneath a navy suit along with a brown belt and coordinating shoes.
Anne and Josh were also seen working on a scene in which they're smiling and running as he's sporting a white button-down shirt, black pants and a bow-tie and she's holding his suit jacket (see the pic here).
In April 2025, Anne confirmed that filming finished.
The movie is slated to hit theaters Oct. 2, 2026.
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