Verity (2026) is a psychological thriller based on Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel of the same name, directed by Michael Showalter. Dakota Johnson stars as Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling New York writer whose career and finances are going nowhere when she receives the offer of a lifetime — a dream job that will draw her into a beautiful house filled with beautiful people and very dangerous secrets.

Celebrated thriller author Verity Crawford has been left unable to speak, move or write after a devastating car accident, with several books in her phenomenally successful series still unfinished. Lowen is hired to complete them in Verity’s voice, and to study the author’s mountains of notes she must move into the family’s secluded lakeside home in Vermont, where Verity’s devoted husband Jeremy cares for his wife and their young surviving son, Crew.

While digging through the chaos of Verity’s office, Lowen stumbles on something never meant to be read: a hidden manuscript that appears to be the author’s private autobiography, filled with chilling confessions about her marriage, her children and the tragedies that have shadowed the family. Horrified yet unable to stop reading, Lowen starts questioning everything — especially as she grows dangerously close to Jeremy, and as small, unsettling moments make her wonder whether Verity is truly as helpless as everyone believes.

Verity braids romance and menace into a guessing game about which woman, if either of them, is telling the truth. Anne Hathaway is quietly unsettling as the silent author at the centre of it all, while the story keeps blurring the line between fiction and manipulation, attraction and obsession. Seductive, disturbing and deliberately ambiguous, it is a thriller about the stories people write — and the ones they bury.

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