The actors are also set to executive produce the project, with the 'Jane the Virgin' alum directing the film based on Colleen Hoover's best-selling novel.
00:00Sony's adaptation of Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us has finally found its leads.
00:05Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni will star opposite each other in the screen adaptation of Hoover's best-selling novel.
00:12Baldoni is set to direct the project and executive produce alongside Lively, Hoover, and others.
00:18According to the book's synopsis, It Ends With Us follows a girl named Lily who has just moved and is ready to start her life after college.
00:25Lily then meets a guy named Ryle and she falls for him. As she's developing feelings for Ryle, Atlas, her first love, reappears and challenges the relationship between Lily and Ryle.
00:37The novel was released in 2016 but became a book talk phenomenon in 2021 with more than 2 billion views on its TikTok hashtag.
00:45The popularity has made Hoover the best-selling novelist in the United States with more than 20 million books sold.
00:51She also wrote six of 2022's top 10 bestsellers.
00:55Baldoni's interest in the book dates back to 2019 when he optioned the rights to adapt it for the big screen.
01:01Since then, he's been working closely with the author who's consulting on the film.
01:05Elsewhere, Lively is set to star in another highly anticipated feature, the sequel to A Simple Favor.
01:11For more updates to this casting, head to THOR.com.
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