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Anne Hathaway has had a busy 2026. So far this year we’ve seen her become a pop diva (Mother Mary), a magazine editor (The Devil Wears Prada 2), and now a famous writer in a coma confined to a bed after a car accident. Wait, or is she? Or was it?
This fall, Hathaway will take her turn embodying one of Colleen Hoover’s women with the release of Verity, where she plays the titular Verity Crawford, a famous writer who is now confined to a bed following a tragic accident. Her husband Jeremy, played by Josh Hartnett (welcome back, Josh Hartnett!), stays at home taking care of her, and hires Lowen Ashley (Dakota Johnson), a struggling writer (relatable!) who is tasked with finishing the book Verity had been writing.
We don’t learn any of this from the teaser trailer, though, which focuses on supernatural hijinx in a desolate icy cabin in the middle of the woods. Johnson walks through an expansive living room, straddles Hartnett, but as she kisses him something happens… he becomes Hathaway, who just seconds before we saw laying unconscious on a nearby bed. Hathaway pulls her back in for a kiss, and bites her lip until she draws blood, which causes Johnson to let out a blood-curdling stream. “Aaaah!” Just what is going on? The whole scene is very reminiscent of the iconic 2000 film What Lies Beneath, where Michelle Pfeiffer seemed to transmogrify into Amber Valletta, while Harrison Ford gaslights her (classic!).
We may have to wait until October 2nd to figure out exactly what’s real and what’s fantasy in this Michael Showalter-directed film (he last worked with Hathaway on the very excellent The Idea of You). The rest of the trailer, involves quick cuts of the woods in winter, lots of people engaged in sex in various positions, hands opening pills and dropping mysterious powders into teacups, Hathaway on a wheelchair, Dakota sucking on a pearl, the hand of a child drawing something that may or may not prove sinister, Hathaway laughing like she knows everything, Johnson looking like she knows nothing, a body being thrown in a lake at night, blood!, Hathaway’s voice saying “Even with my generous warnings, you’re going to continue to ingest my words, but know one thing, there is no light where we are going” while a slowed-down version of Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” fills the space with dread. Our curiosity? Oh, it’s piqued.
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