A new trailer for Verity has arrived, pulling audiences even deeper into the seductive and deeply disturbing mystery at the centre of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling psychological thriller.
Dakota Johnson stars as Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling writer whose career is going nowhere when she receives the kind of opportunity most authors would never consider turning down.
Bestselling novelist Verity Crawford can no longer complete her hugely successful book series following a mysterious accident.
Her husband Jeremy needs someone to finish the work.
He chooses Lowen.
What initially appears to be a potentially life-changing professional assignment soon becomes something considerably darker.
Lowen moves into the remote Crawford family home, where she is given access to Verity’s notes, unfinished material and private archive in preparation for taking over the series.
But hidden among the author’s papers is something she was never supposed to read.
A manuscript.
Not another novel.
Something that appears to be autobiographical.
And the further Lowen reads, the harder it becomes to dismiss what Verity has written as fiction.
Anne Hathaway plays Verity Crawford, an enormously successful author whose physical condition leaves her apparently dependent on the people around her.
Yet Trailer 2 intensifies the uncertainty surrounding exactly how vulnerable Verity really is.
Her presence hangs over almost every moment inside the house.
A stare lasts slightly too long.
A movement seems impossible.
Something happens that Lowen cannot explain.
And gradually the supposedly incapacitated woman begins to feel like the most dangerous person in the room.
The manuscript only makes that fear worse.
Its pages contain disturbing revelations about Verity’s marriage, her children and events that have already left the Crawford family surrounded by tragedy.
Lowen begins asking the question that drives the entire story:
Is she reading the private fantasies of a thriller writer?
Or a confession?
Dakota Johnson’s Lowen becomes increasingly obsessed with finding the answer.
But her investigation is complicated by Jeremy.
Josh Hartnett plays Verity’s husband as a man carrying enormous grief while attempting to hold together what remains of his family.
Living under the same roof brings Lowen and Jeremy increasingly close, and professional boundaries quickly begin disappearing.
Attraction becomes intimacy.
Intimacy becomes another secret.
And Lowen finds herself occupying a position dangerously close to the woman whose life she was originally hired only to write about.
The second trailer pushes that triangle much further into erotic-thriller territory.
Lowen is attracted to Jeremy.
She is terrified by Verity.
But she is also fascinated by her.
And Verity appears increasingly aware of everything happening around her.
That uncertainty is what makes the story particularly unsettling.
If Verity truly cannot communicate, Lowen may be projecting meaning onto ordinary behaviour because of what she has read.
If Verity is pretending, then almost every interaction inside the Crawford house becomes part of a much larger manipulation.
And if the manuscript is truthful, Lowen may be living under the same roof as someone capable of far worse than deception.
Anne Hathaway’s performance leans directly into that ambiguity.
Verity can appear fragile in one moment and threatening in the next without necessarily doing anything obvious.
A facial expression or brief glance becomes enough to make Lowen — and the audience — question what they have just seen.
Johnson’s character becomes equally difficult to read as her obsession grows.
She begins the story as an outsider investigating someone else’s secrets.
But the more involved she becomes with Jeremy and the Crawford family, the less objective she is capable of remaining.
Eventually, exposing Verity could also give Lowen exactly what she wants.
That creates another uncomfortable question:
Can Lowen trust herself?
Verity is based on Colleen Hoover’s 2018 novel, which became one of the author’s most discussed books thanks in large part to its psychological ambiguity and famously divisive ending.
The adaptation is directed by Michael Showalter, reuniting him with Hathaway after their collaboration on The Idea of You.
Nick Antosca and Colleen Hoover wrote the screenplay.
The supporting cast includes Brady Wagner as Verity and Jeremy’s son Crew, alongside Asel Swango and Daniel Echevarria.
But the film is fundamentally built around its central trio.
Johnson, Hathaway and Hartnett form a relationship in which desire, suspicion and manipulation are constantly overlapping.
The new trailer makes especially clear that Verity is not being approached simply as another domestic mystery.
Amazon MGM Studios describes the film as a seductive psychological thriller, and the footage embraces both sides of that description.
Sexual attraction and psychological horror exist inside the same scenes.
Lowen wants Jeremy.
Lowen fears Verity.
And somewhere within Verity’s writing may be the truth capable of destroying all three of them.
The Crawford house itself becomes part of that atmosphere.
Its isolated rooms and dark corridors give Lowen nowhere to escape the story she is reading, while Verity’s presence transforms ordinary domestic spaces into places where almost anything could be happening just outside her view.
Every new discovery seems to promise an explanation.
Instead, it creates another version of the truth.
That is the trap at the centre of Verity.
Lowen believes that reading enough will eventually tell her who Verity Crawford really is.
But writers create stories for a living.
And the most dangerous possibility may be that Verity knows exactly what story she wants Lowen to believe.
Verity arrives in cinemas worldwide on October 2, 2026.
Watch Trailer 2 below.
