Darkness is ahead for Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett in the first look at Verity.
Based on the bestseller from author Colleen Hoover, Johnson stars in the film adaptation that teases lingering secrets and a dark sinister mystery awaiting to be solved.
“Even with my continuous warning, you’re going to continue to ingest my words. But know one thing: There is no light where we’re going,” Hathaway teases in the official teaser trailer released Monday.
Verity follows Lowen Ashleigh (Johnson), who is hired by Jeremy Crawford (Hartnett) to ghostwrite novels for his bestselling author wife, Verity (Hathaway), who’s unable to finish after an accident. However, while residing at the Crawfords’ home to work on the book, Lowen begins to realize not everything is as it seems and uncovers Verity’s disturbing truths.
Throughout the trailer, Johnson’s Lowen is seen having a romantic relationship with Hartnett’s Jeremy — only a bedridden Hathaway’s Verity is never far.
The trailer opens with Johnson and Hartnett kissing, only for Hathaway’s character to take his place with a smirk as the two pull away.
The footage of the film was first unveiled during Amazon’s presentation for theater owners and distributors in Las Vegas for CinemaCon.
Michael Showalter, who previously worked with Hathaway on The Idea of You, directs with Nick Antosca writing the script following the previous work of scribes Hillary Seitz, Angela LaManna and the team of Will Honley and April Maguire.
Hathaway, Hoover, Showalter, Antosca, Alex Hedlund, Stacey Sher and Jordana Mollick produce.
Verity marks the next adaptation from Hoover’s book universe following the success of It Ends With Us, Regretting You and Reminders of Him. Hoover self-published Verity in 2018 before Grand Central Publishing acquired it in 2021. The author serves a producer on the new film.
Verity releases on Oct. 2, 2026.
