Colleen Hoover’s best-selling romantic thriller Verity is getting the Hollywood treatment, and the star-studded adaptation is already set for a 2026 release. Hoover’s novels have already found great success onscreen with the release of the controversial 2024 film, It Ends with Us, and Verity is aiming to capture some of the magic once again. The shocking novel follows an author named Lowen who is hired to finish a novel by best-selling scribe Verity Crawford after an accident leaves her unable to write. However, Lowen begins digging into Verity’s life and discovers that things aren’t exactly as they seem.

Striking while the iron is still H๏τ, several of Colleen Hoover’s books are currently being adapted or have been already, and it’s clear that her works translate to the large and small screen quite well. However, it remains to be seen if Hoover’s success with It Ends With Us in 2024 was from legitimate interest or due to the myriad of BTS controversies that surrounded the project. This puts a tremendous amount of pressure on the upcoming Verity adaptation to perform well, but with stars like Anne Hathaway attached, there’s little doubt that it will gain traction.

Colleen Hoover’s Verity: The Latest News

The Romantic Thriller Adaptation Nabs A Release Date

Coming less than a year after the project was formally announced, the latest news confirms that Verity has a release date. The romantic thriller will be a late spring release, and is due to arrive in theaters on May 15, 2026. Perhaps hoping to offer an alternative to the action-heavy May 2026 slate, Verity will be released between the MCU’s Avengers: Doomsday (May 1) and the Star Wars film, The Mandalorian & Grogu (May 22). It remains to be seen if Verity will suffer from much audience overlap when it comes to the aforementioned franchise films.

Colleen Hoover’s Verity: Release Date

Verity Will Arrive In Theaters In May 2026

Though the film adaptation had been in development since 2020, things really took off when the movie landed at Amazon MGM Studios in 2024. The screenplay is penned by Nick Antosca (Channel Zero), and the movie is directed by Michael Showalter, who also helmed the Anne Hathaway hit The Idea of You in 2024. Principal pH๏τography began in February 2025, and Amazon MGM has now given the adaptation a May 17, 2026, release date. The release date could change in the intervening months, but late spring should work well for the romantic thriller.

Colleen Hoover’s Verity: Cast Details

Anne Hathaway Leads An All-Star Ensemble

As befitting a potential blockbuster, the cast of Verity is a star-studded affair despite being mostly incomplete. Fresh off of her success in The Idea of You, Anne Hathaway has been tapped to play the role of the mysterious тιтular author, Verity Crawford. Joining Hathaway is Josh Hartnett as Verity’s husband, Jeremy, who begins a romantic relationship with Lowen Ashleigh, who is brought in to complete Verity’s final novel. Rounding out the main cast, Dakota Johnson will play the role of Lowen, and she’s no stranger to leading controversial romance adaptations after starring in the Fifty Shades series.

Several other names are attached to the project in supporting roles, but nothing is known about who they will be playing.

Ismael Cruz Córdova (The Rings of Power), theater actor Brady Wagner, ballet dancer Irina Dvorovenko, K.K. Moggie (The Good Wife), and Michael Abbott Jr. (The Drama) will all appear in Verity, and more details are expected soon. Additionally, it stands to reason that several other stars will join the film, but it’s impossible to guess who that will be for now.

The confirmed cast of Verity includes:

Actor	Verity Role
Anne Hathaway	Verity Crawford
Josh Hartnett	Jeremy Crawford
Dakota Johnson	Lowen Ashleigh
Ismael Cruz Córdova	Unknown
Brady Wagner	Unknown
Irina Dvorovenko	Unknown
K.K. Moggie	Unknown
Michael Abbott Jr.	Unknown

Colleen Hoover’s Verity: Story Details

A Mysterious Author & Plenty Of Shocking Secrets

Though the Colleen Hoover adaptation will undoubtedly make some changes to the story from the original novel, it’s expected that Verity will stick somewhat closely to the romantic thriller’s basic premise. In the book, Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling author who meets Jeremy Crawford, the husband of best-selling writer Verity Crawford. Following his wife’s incapacitation due to an accident, Jeremy enlists Lowen to finish Verity’s final novel. However, when Lowen begins digging through Verity’s manuscript, she discovers a myriad of shocking confessions from the author.

A twisting mystery then unfolds in which Verity herself becomes the main suspect in a series of strange events. Meanwhile, Lowen starts to form a romantic relationship with the troubled Jeremy, and a very Colleen Hoover-like series of twists and turns lead to a truly shocking climax. It remains to be seen if the movie will add or subtract elements, or if Verity will change a few of the most notable twists in order to keep things fresh and surprising.