{"id":590159,"date":"2026-08-11T17:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590159\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:46:16","slug":"first-look-at-verity-anne-hathaway-and-dakota-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590159\/","title":{"rendered":"First look at Verity: Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fans have finally been given a first glimpse of Verity, the psychological erotic thriller based on Colleen Hoover\u2019s hit novel \u2014 and the trailer is already sending shockwaves through BookTok. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The film<a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/06\/19\/entertainment\/anne-hathaway-pregnant\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/06\/19\/entertainment\/anne-hathaway-pregnant\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> stars Anne Hathaway <\/a>as Verity Crawford and Dakota Johnson as Lowen Ashleigh, pulling viewers straight into Hoover\u2019s world of obsession, manipulation and blurred truths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the film adaption of It Ends With Us going viral, fans are on the edge of their seat waiting for this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SnapInsta-Ai_3885281882120559601.jpg\" alt=\"Dakota Johnson in Verity. Pic: Amazon MGM Studios\" class=\"wp-image-2137426\"  \/>Dakota Johnson in Verity. Pic: Amazon MGM Studios<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trailer leans into the book\u2019s most unsettling beats. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home to ghostwrite Verity\u2019s unfinished series. She explores the house. She reads the manuscript. She starts to question everything. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The atmosphere is tense, claustrophobic and deeply uncomfortable \u2014 exactly what fans of Colleen Hoover expect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anne Hathaway brings a chilling stillness to Verity. <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2026\/04\/28\/entertainment\/tv\/verity-colleen-hoover\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2026\/04\/28\/entertainment\/tv\/verity-colleen-hoover\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Dakota Johnson plays Lowen with quiet panic<\/a>. Josh Hartnett appears as Jeremy Crawford, caught between loyalty, grief and something darker. It\u2019s a sharp, prestige cast for a story built on secrets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Untitled-1_b3969c.jpg\" alt=\"VERITY, from Amazon MGM Studios. Pic: Alisha Wetherill\/Amazon\" class=\"wp-image-2182437\"  \/>VERITY, from Amazon MGM Studios. Pic: Alisha Wetherill\/Amazon<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Directed by Michael Showalter and written by Nick Antosca, the film promises a slick, unsettling tone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quick flashes in the trailer hint at the manuscript discovery, the accident, the shifting power dynamic and the question that drives the entire story: what is Verity hiding?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2165629590.jpg\" alt=\"Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds attend the &quot;It Ends With Us&quot; New York Premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater. Pic: Getty Images\" class=\"wp-image-1976613\"  \/>Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds attend the It Ends With Us : Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Verity lands in cinemas on October 2, 2026, released by Amazon MGM Studios. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Hoover\u2019s novels selling more than 20 million copies worldwide \u2014 and Verity being her most talked\u2011about thriller \u2014 the film is already shaping up to be one of the year\u2019s biggest adaptations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans have finally been given a first glimpse of Verity, the psychological erotic thriller based on Colleen Hoover\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-590159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}