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When it comes to upcoming book adaptations, we’re always curious to see how the source material compares, and how much the author gets involved (should they be still living). The latest of the 2025 movies based on a bestselling book is Regretting You, which was authored by viral author Colleen Hoover, but how much was she involved in the film’s production?

Hoover is listed as an executive producer on Regretting You. When I spoke to the movie’s director Josh Boone, he shared that her involvement in the production was “very minimal.”
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00:00It's always interesting to hear about, um, the involvement of the author when their vision is
00:05being, you know, transported. What was Colleen Hoover's involvement here?
00:10You know, very minimal. It's like, so luckily the producer that brought it to me is a guy
00:15named Brunson Green who did the help. And he's like my favorite producer I've ever worked with.
00:19Like he is awesome. And so the two producers that he worked with on this movie, Flavia and Anna,
00:24knew Colleen. And so they are in the book world and Anna, uh, wrote all those after books. So
00:30she's known Colleen for many years through that. So it's like, I was able to keep a nice sort of
00:35removed from all that. And they did that. And again, I wanted nothing, but for Colleen to love
00:40the movie, which she did, which was the biggest, like, you know, but I just, she had had such a
00:46tumultuous time on that last one. I just wanted her to have a good experience and I didn't want to,
00:50uh, inundate or bother her or vie for her affection. Uh, so I really thought about that a lot was
00:56giving her space and just going to make the movie. I didn't really need anything from her. I had the
01:01book, you know? So, um, yeah. And, uh, wonderful. I'm sure she's great, but I just wanted to kind of
01:07keep a distance from, from all that stuff.
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