{"id":400601,"date":"2026-04-27T22:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400601\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:43:08","slug":"anne-hathaway-lures-dakota-johnson-into-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400601\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Hathaway Lures Dakota Johnson Into Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAmazon MGM Studios<\/a> has unveiled the first teaser for Verity<\/a>, its adaptation of the bestselling psychological thriller by It Ends with Us author Colleen Hoover<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, starring Anne Hathaway<\/a> and Dakota Johnson<\/a> and slated to hit theaters October 2, follows Lowen Ashleigh (Johnson), a struggling writer who is hired to complete a successful book series after its author, Verity Crawford (Hathaway), is incapacitated. Once inside the Crawford home, Lowen becomes entangled with Verity\u2019s husband Jeremy (Josh Hartnett) and uncovers an unfinished manuscript that may reveal disturbing truths about the author.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Amazon MGM recently unveiled a trailer for the film at CinemaCon, as we reported<\/a>, the teaser unveiled today is different.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt finds Lowen walking into the darkness of Verity\u2019s home, with the author lying ill, in bed. The camera pans over to Jeremy, who promptly begins making out with Lowen with his wife in the room \u2014 and eventually, when Lowen pulls away, we see that it\u2019s somehow Verity herself that she\u2019s getting intimate with.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEven with my generous warning, you\u2019re going to continue to ingest my words,\u201d Verity tells Lowen in the trailer. \u201cBut know one thing: there is no light where we\u2019re going. Darkness ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDirected by Michael Showalter<\/a>, a frequent hire of Amazon MGM\u2019s who reteamed with Hathaway on the heels of their rom-com The Idea of You, Verity also stars Ismael Cruz C\u00f3rdova and Brady Wagner.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is one of a number of book-to-film adaptations based on the work of BookTok phenomenon Hoover, on the heels of Sony\u2019s It Ends with Us, which broke out as an outsized commercial success at a worldwide gross exceeding $351 million, even as a legal battle between the film\u2019s key creatives Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni threatened to overshadow that success. Paramount followed that film up quickly with Regretting You, a Hoover adaptation starring Allison Williams, Mckenna Grace, Dave Franco and Mason Thames, which grossed over $90 million. After that came Universal\u2019s Reminders of Him, starring Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers, which did more than $84M in theaters earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out the trailer for Verity above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon MGM Studios has unveiled the first teaser for Verity, its adaptation of the bestselling psychological thriller by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14926,69537,22519,23029,156,206713,409,111,139,69,198585],"class_list":{"0":"post-400601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-amazon-mgm-studios","9":"tag-anne-hathaway","10":"tag-colleen-hoover","11":"tag-dakota-johnson","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-michael-showalter","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-verity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}