{"id":2326707,"date":"2026-03-13T16:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2326707"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:40:22","slug":"colleen-hoover-writes-first-screenplay-reminders-of-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/colleen-hoover-writes-first-screenplay-reminders-of-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Colleen Hoover writes first screenplay, &#8216;Reminders of Him&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>\u201cI understood why she was like that,\u201d Caswill says. \u201cAnd yet she does relinquish (her position), and that\u2019s a beautiful journey she goes on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>Leads Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers brought the kind of \u201cdualities\u201d they mined in horror films.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>\u201cYou need both a vulnerability and a hardness (in horror films) and that worked well in our film,\u201d Caswill explains. They also needed an openness that would work well with Zoe Kosovic, who plays Monroe\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-image layout-horizontal   tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-default tnt-inline-width-default\">\n<figure class=\"photo layout-horizontal hover-expand letterbox-style-default\"><span class=\"expand hidden-print\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-da2e891d-4f12-5265-9aa3-ad5615cd0b5c\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-5cdbf485-c5c5-5030-8c80-d9a467a5506e-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-5cdbf485-c5c5-5030-8c80-d9a467a5506e\"><br \/>\n                <span class=\"fas tnt-expand\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-da2e891d-4f12-5265-9aa3-ad5615cd0b5c\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-5cdbf485-c5c5-5030-8c80-d9a467a5506e-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-5cdbf485-c5c5-5030-8c80-d9a467a5506e\">\n<div itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n            <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1927\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"800\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/tucson.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/d\/a2\/da2e891d-4f12-5265-9aa3-ad5615cd0b5c\/69b053dc5be56.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C498\"\/><br \/>\n                    \n        <\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p>                                <span class=\"caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Zoe Kosovic, left, and\u00a0Tyriq Withers in &#8220;Reminders of Him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n                                    <span id=\"author--asset-da2e891d-4f12-5265-9aa3-ad5615cd0b5c\" class=\"tnt-byline asset-byline\" rel=\"popover\" itemprop=\"author\"><br \/>\n            Universal Pictures<br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                        <span class=\"clearfix\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>\u201cWe got tapes of loads of little girls, and there were so many great ones,\u201d Caswill says. \u201cBut (Kosovic) really stood out.\u201d During an in-person audition, \u201cshe was just so in the moment, so alive and passionate about what she\u2019s doing. I was worried with a kid that age that she wouldn\u2019t remember her lines, but that wasn\u2019t the case at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>While Hoover has written sequels to certain books, she makes no promises about \u201cReminders of Him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>\u201cIf you give me structure, I will crumble,\u201d she says. \u201cI write when I\u2019m in the mood and, sometimes, that happens every day for a couple of months at a time, and sometimes I can go six months without writing a single word. I just listen to my creative side and (do it) when I feel like it. I don\u2019t want this to feel like this is a job that I have to show up to every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>Hoover has three sons who frequently ask to see her novels before they\u2019re published. And, yes, they do offer advice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>She had them watch \u201cReminders of Him\u201d with their friends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lee-article-text\">\n<p>\u201cWe had a theater full of guys in their 20s and a lot of them cried \u2026 which was fun to see,\u201d she says. \u201cThis film translates to anyone with a heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source tucson.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI understood why she was like that,\u201d Caswill says. \u201cAnd yet she does relinquish (her position), and that\u2019s a beautiful journey she goes on.\u201d Leads Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers brought the kind of \u201cdualities\u201d they mined in horror films. \u201cYou need both a vulnerability and a hardness (in horror films) and that worked well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2326708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[398917,444557],"class_list":["post-2326707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-dcc","tag-regional-syndication"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Colleen-Hoover-writes-first-screenplay-Reminders-of-Him.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326709,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326707\/revisions\/2326709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}