Anne Hathaway is set to star in Amazon MGM Studios' adaptation of Colleen Hoover's Verity, to be directed by Michael Showalter.

To be clear, Verity is not a rom-com—it fits squarely in the Hoover wheelhouse of dark and twisty romantic drama. (Dark and twisty in a soap opera way, not in, like, a Paul Verhoeven way.) Hathaway will play the titular character Verity Crawford,

Actress to play lead role in adaptation of Hoover’s Verity, about a struggling writer. Hoover adaptation It Ends With Us is a box office hit.