“I think that Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively have what it takes to bring these characters to life, and I cannot wait for you guys to see that happen,” she said, in the emotional video. She shared how personal the story is, given its loose association with her mother’s life and her journey to escape a “scary situation”. To announce the news, Hoover visited her childhood home – where she alleges her mother escaped domestic violence and created a safe haven for her children. While Colleen Hoover has shared that Blake Lively will play Lily Bloom and Justin Baldoni will play Ryle Kincaid, the casting of Atlas Corrigan and Lily’s mother is yet to be announced.īaldoni will also direct the movie while Lively will be an executive producer. Given the success of the novel, it was picked up by Sony Pictures, and we have not been given any further details about the film’s progress until now.

It Ends With Us has received a lot of love from the #BookTok community, a group of avid readers that recommend novels they’ve read to other bookworms on the app. In Australia, the book took the top spot and Hoover had nearly half of her titles in the Sydney Morning Herald top 10 bestsellers for 2022. The book was released in 2016 and according to Forbes, has sold over four million copies since its publication.

While Colleen Hoover has racked up over 20 novels throughout the years, it was It Ends With Us that cemented her as a prominent writer for a new generation of technology-obsessed readers. Colleen Hoover took to TikTok to share the news and her joy about the casting decisions, but the internet has had other ideas – from the actors’ ages to their decision to get involved with the adaptation at all, given the controversy the novel has been embroiled with in recent months.

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