Sam Amico
Thanks in part to singer/actor Harry Styles, a new movie starring Anne Hathaway is reportedly in the works.
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Per Deadline, Hathaway is set to star in The Idea of You as a divorced mother who embarks on a romantic rendezvous with a musician she meets at Coachella.
The movie is based on the book of the same name by Robinne Lee. Originally published in 2017, it became a massive success a couple of years later.
The book is often viewed as Styles fan fiction, as he supposedly inspired one-half of the central couple. Lee told Vogue she was “up late surfing music videos on YouTube” and stumbled across “the face of a boy I’d never seen in a band I’d never paid attention to. It was like … art.”
Anne Hathaway to Star in Harry Styles Fan Fiction Film
Styles, 28, often dates older women. Hathaway, 39, portrays a 40-year-old in the movie. But the book never was meant to be Styles fan fiction, Lee insisted.
“It was supposed to be a story about a woman approaching 40 and reclaiming her sexuality and rediscovering herself, just at the point that society traditionally writes women off as desirable and viable and whole,” she told Vogue.
Michael Showalter is set to direct The Idea of You, which doesn’t yet have a release date. That said, we do seem to know a little bit about it.
“The movie version of The Idea of You follows Sophie, a 40-year-old newly divorced mom who takes her daughter to Coachella,” wrote Popsugar. “There, she meets Hayes Campbell, the 24-year-old lead singer of an incredibly popular British boy band called August Moon. The pair embark on a fling that quickly turns into a whirlwind romance. They begin a globe-trotting romance that grows complicated when it goes viral, and Sophie finds herself facing the ire of Campbell’s legions of fans.”
