Dakota Johnson, Jost Hartnett join Anne Hathaway in ‘Verity’ film
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We now know who will join Anne Hathaway in the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover‘s bestselling book Verity.
Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett will star opposite Hathaway in the drama, which will be directed by Michael Showalter with a script by Nick Antosca.
Hartnett will play Jeremy Crawford, the husband of bestselling thriller author Verity Crawford, played by Hathaway. After Verity is unable to complete the remaining books in her successful series, Jeremy hires struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh, who will be played by Johnson, to finish them.
The film will be released in theaters by Amazon MGM Studios.
Verity was first self-published by Hoover in 2018. It then grew in popularity and was acquired by Grand Central Publishing in 2021. It sold more than 1 million copies in 2023.
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On Monday evening, Courteney Cox followed Jennifer Aniston with a tribute to their former Friends co-star Matthew Perry, who died of a drug overdose on Oct. 28, 2023.
Along with a photo of herself with Perry, Cox wrote, “Missing you today and always.”
This followed Aniston’s Instagram post earlier in the day, which marked the somber occasion with the caption “One year.”
Another who paid tribute to Perry was Simpsons voice star, Friends guest star and Perry’s longtime friend Hank Azaria, who noted on X, “One year without Matthew.”
To a collage of pictures of the pair together, Azaria added, “He helped me get sober and made me laugh harder than anyone else. I miss him every day. The world isn’t the same without you, brother!”
Perry died from the acute effects of ketamine at 54 years old. Five people have been charged in connection with his death.
