Thriller ‘Verity’ First Look: Stepping Into The Writing Life Of Someone Else – CinemaCon

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Amazon MGM Studios on Wednesday at CinemaCon offered a first look at Verity, its film adaptation of the bestselling psychological thriller by It Ends with Us author Colleen Hoover.

Directed by Michael Showalter, a frequent hire of the studio who reteams with Anne Hathaway on the heels of their rom-com The Idea of You, Verity follows Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota 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, she becomes entangled with Verity’s husband Jeremy (Josh Hartnett) and uncovers an unfinished manuscript that may reveal disturbing truths about the author.

Tonight in Las Vegas, Amazon MGM unveiled a for-the-room only trailer. The two women meet, Lowen is shocked to find Verity in the state she is. “Can she speak? Does she know what’s going on?” Lowen asks as she prepares

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