Colleen Hoover’s best-selling romance novel “It Ends With Us” is getting a film adaptation with Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni set to star, Variety has confirmed.
The film is in development at Sony Pictures, with Baldoni set to direct and executive produce under his Wayfarer Studios banner, which co-financed the film. Lively is also executive producing alongside Hoover, Steve Sarowitz, and Andrew Calof. Alex Saks will produce for Saks Picture Company, and Jamie Heath will produce for Wayfarer Studios. Christy Hall (“I Am Not Okay With This”) wrote the current screenplay and is also set to produce.
“It Ends With Us” follows small-town girl Lily, who moves to Boston to start her own business. Sparks immediately fly between her and neurosurgeon Ryle, but her “absolute disdain for the relationship is disturbing,” reads the book’s description. “As Lily finds herself the exception to her ‘no dating’ rule, she can’t help but wonder what made her date in the first place. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan—her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, Lily Royale confronts Everything you’ve built with it is at risk.
Blake Lively To Star in Colleen Hoover ‘It Ends With Us’ Book Adaptation
Hoover is currently in America the best-selling novelist in the US, writing five of the 10 best-selling books of any genre in the past year, and has sold more than 20 million books. “It Ends With Us” finished as the best-selling print book of 2022 and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 90 weeks. Baldoni and Wayfarer are working with Hoover as consultants on the film.
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Known for the TV series “Gossip Girl” and films such as “A Simple Favor” and “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” Lively starred in Taylor Swift’s “I Bet You Think About Me” music video last year. With his directorial debut, he is set to make his feature directorial debut with “Seconds,” an adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel, written and produced by Edgar Wright alongside Marc Platt.
Former “Jane the Virgin” star Baldoni is the co-founder of Wayfarer Studios, which aims to “create purpose-driven, multi-platform film and television productions that lift and speak to the human spirit,” according to a press release. Through the banner, he recently directed 2019’s “Five Feet Apart” and 2020’s “Clouds.”
Hall recently co-developed and executive produced the Netflix series “I Am Not Okay With This” and is set to make his directorial debut with “Daddio,” starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn, which is currently in post-production. She is also writing the screenplay for the Sony film adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s “The Husband’s Secret” starring Lively.
Lively is repped by WME, Entertainment 360, Vision PR and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Hall is repped by CAA, Grandview, and attorney Miles Metcoff at Yorn Levine. Baldoni is repped by WME and Jonesworks.
