That’s How It Ends: Colleen Hoover reveals protagonists for adaptation of her bestselling book

Colleen Hooverbestselling author This is how it ends (2018), announced the cast for the adaptation of his eponymous book through his social networks last Thursday, 26. Produced by wayfarer studios and sony picturesthe actress Blake Lively (gossip Girl) and the actor Justin Baldoni (jane the virgin) will be the protagonists.

Livelywho is pregnant with her fourth child with Ryan Reynoldshad been absent from the film industry since 2020, following the release of The Rhythm of Vengeance (2020). The actress will play the flower girl Lily Bloom.

In addition to starring in the novel as the doctor Ryle Kincaid, baldoni will also direct the film. Already Christy Hall will be responsible for the script of the feature. The actor who will play Lily’s first love, Atlashas not yet been revealed.

Considered the best-selling book of 2022, the most intimate work by Colleen Hoover became a worldwide bestseller after going viral on #BookToka community of TikTok devoted entirely to talking about books. There is still no set release date for the film adaptation of This is how it ends.

Synopsis of This is how it ends

In the book, Colleen Hoover introduces us to Lily, a young woman who moved from a small town in Maine to Boston, graduated in marketing and opened her own flower shop. And it’s on one of Boston’s terraces that she meets Rylea confident, opinionated and perhaps even a little arrogant neurosurgeon with a strong aversion to relationships but who is very attracted to her.

When the two fall in love, Lily finds herself in the middle of a turbulent relationship that is not what she expected. But will she be able to see it, as painful as it is?

This is how it ends is described as “a powerful narrative about the strength it takes to make the right choices in the toughest of situations”. Considered Hoover’s most personal work, the book fearlessly tackles some societal taboos to explore the complexity of toxic relationships, and how love and abuse often coexist in a jumble of feelings.