Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You is headed to the big screen, with Allison Williams on board to star, Deadline reports.
Hoover’s novel, published in 2019 by Montlake Romance, follows Morgan Grant, who has a fraught relationship with her 16-year-old daughter, Clara. Their lives are thrown into disarray when Chris, Morgan’s husband and Clara’s father, is killed in an accident. A critic for Kirkus wrote of the novel, “The emotions run high, the conversations run deep, and the relationships ebb and flow with grace.”
Williams, known for her roles in the series Girls and the films Get Out and M3GAN, will play Morgan in the movie adaptation. The film will be written by Susan McMartin (Two and a Half Men, Mom) and directed by Josh Boone, who has helmed adaptations of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and Stephen King’s The Stand.
News of the Regretting You adaptation comes just days after the release of It Ends With Us, the film based on Hoover’s 2016 novel. The film received mixed reviews from critics but is a box office hit.
Earlier this year, it was announced that Amazon MGM Studios is adapting another of Hoover’s novels, Verity, as a film to be written by Hillary Seitz (Insomnia, The Unforgivable).
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
