Blake Lively To Star in Film Adaptation Of Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us
The project is going to be directed and produced by ‘Jane The Virgin’ alum Justin Baldoni who is also going to star in it.
You’ll soon be able to watch Colleen Hoover bestselling novel, It Ends With Us, on the silverscreen… and Blake Lively will be playing the lead.
According to Deadline, the book — which went viral on short-form video sharing platform TikTok — is being adapted into a film.
EXCLUSIVE: Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni are attached to star in the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel, ‘It Ends With Us,’ which is currently in development with Wayfarer Studios and Sony Pictures. Baldoni is also set to direct https://t.co/7FEdH9JcTe
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The Texas-based writer and former social worker took to Instagram to celebrate the news.
The romance-drama novel revolves around protagonist Lily Bloom, fresh-out-of-college, looking to start her own business. As young as Lily is, she is just as inexperienced in love, mainly because of a dark secret in her past that causes her to harbour some resentment towards her parents, more so, her father. The character soon meets neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid with whom she shares an intense romance but everything is not what it seems.
Based on the marriage of the 43-year-old novelist’s parents, It Ends With Us was described by Colleen as “the hardest book I’ve ever written”.
Having completely topped the charts throughout 2022, the author looks to make waves with this adaptation as a consultant, working closely with Justin’s Wayfarer Studios, to bring the story to the big screen.
While the 2016 novel’s emergent rise to popularity on social media has guaranteed its position on The New York Times Best Seller List for almost 90 weeks, the casting announcement of Hollywood favourites Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni is set to break records on the silver screen as well.
With big-name stars attached to the project, it is impossible for it to not do well with audiences. However, critics of the American writer often talk about the harmful effects of glamorizing trauma to appeal to young women. Even the infectious nature of Colleen’s writing, often credited to her romanticisation of abuse, is not enough to change the minds of professional critics who describe her work as “bland” or “featureless.”
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Colleen intends to pen more emotionally-stirring novels for her overzealous fans, who refer to themselves as “CoHorts”, as she is set to publish a suspense novel with Grand Central this year and at least four more books in the next five years, reports Kirkus Reviews.
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