Universal released the trailer for Reminders of Him, based on the best-selling book by Colleen Hoover, today. The film hits theaters March 13, 2026.
The film will be the third to adapt one of Hoover’s many novels following 2024’s It Ends With Us and Friday’s Regretting You.
The clip shows Kenna (Maika Monroe) meeting Scotty (Rudy Pankow) where she works as they kindle a relationship over his purchases of single plastic yellow plates set to Lord Huron’s “The Night We Met.” But after the loveliest of outings with him, Kenna makes an unbearable mistake that sends her to prison for seven years.
“There was before you and there was during you,” Monroe’s voice plays over the montage of the outing, which is followed by a car crash that leaves Scotty dead. “For some reason, I never thought there would be an after you.”
Following Kenna’s release, she returns to her Wyoming hometown hoping to start over and meet her daughter Diem, whom she doesn’t know well. Diem’s custodial grandparents, Grace and Patrick (Lauren Graham and Bradley Whitford), adamantly refuse Kenna’s attempts to see her daughter, but she discovers unexpected compassion, and then something truer and deeper, with former NFL player and local bar owner Ledger (Tyriq Withers).
“How dare she just show up?” Graham’s Grace asks Ledger after Kenna shows up in his neighborhood because Scotty’s parents live nearby.
Ledger didn’t realize who Kenna was when he met her at his bar — which used to be a bookstore — and he tells her Scotty was his best friend. “If it wasn’t for her, our son would still be alive,” Whitford’s Patrick says.
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As their secret romance develops set to Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” so do the dangers for both Kenna and Ledger. Kenna risks heartbreak and, ultimately, the hope for a second chance.
“We’ve all been wrong about her,” Ledger tells Grace and Patrick. “You’ve taken the worst moment of her life and made it into who she is.”
Grammy winner and country musician Lainey Wilson (Yellowstone) will play Kenna’s friend and coworker, Amy. They can be seen having an exchange about trauma in which Kenna tells Wilson’s Amy that she can’t get a job because she just got out of prison.
The supporting cast includes Jennifer Robertson (Schitt’s Creek) as Kenna’s landlord; Zoe Kosovic (The Smashing Machine) as Kenna’s daughter Diem; Hilary Jardine (Holidazed) and Nicholas Duvernay (The White Lotus) as Ledger’s bar team; and, in her screen debut, Monika Myers as Kenna’s neighbor, Lady Diana.
Leading an all-female filmmaking team, Vanessa Caswill (Love at First Sight, Little Women mini-series) directs Reminders of Him from a screenplay by Colleen Hoover and Lauren Levine, based on Hoover’s novel. The film is produced by Colleen Hoover (exec producer It Ends with Us, Regretting You), Lauren Levine (Bridge to Terabithia, exec producer, Confess series) and Gina Matthews (Isn’t it Romantic, 13 Going on 30). Robin Mulcahy Fisichella executive produces. Universal Pictures presents a Heartbones Entertainment and Little Engine production: Reminders of Him.
First published in 2022, Reminders of Him has sold more than 6 million copies in the United States and has been translated into 45 languages. Hoover is the bestselling author of numerous blockbuster novels, including It Ends with Us, It Starts with Us, Layla, Heart Bones, Confess and Verity.