The Force is strong in Ali Hazelwood‘s art.
After all, her best-selling romance novel The Love Hypothesis—which is being adapted into a film starring Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman—originally came from a galaxy far, far away.
That’s right, Hazelwood, a longtime fan of Star Wars, first published the fanfiction story that would become the TikTok sensation in 2018. Inspired by the 2015 film The Force Awakens, the original iteration, Head Over Feet, reimagined Princess Leia and Han Solo’s son Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and Jedi Rey (Daisy Ridley) in an academic setting.
“I was really, really into writing fanfiction,” Hazelwood told Collider in 2021. “Then what happened is that I started slowly thinking about trying to write something original, just to challenge myself and to do something different.”
It turns out, her now-agent Thao Le had read some of her work on the fanfiction website Archive of Our Own (AO3), and reached out believing her stories had the potential to be a hit.
