Nicholas Galitzine (Purple Hearts) has been tapped to star alongside Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway in Prime Video’s film The Idea of You, based on Robinne Lee’s bestselling contemporary love story of the same name, which goes into production in October.The film from Emmy-nominated director Michael Showalter (The Big Sick) centers on Sophie (Hathaway), a 40-year-old divorced mother.
Sophie’s husband Dan left her for a younger woman, and now he has canceled his Coachella trip with their 15-year-old daughter.
Sophie then picks up the pieces, braving the crowds and desert heat in Dan’s place. While at the music festival, she meets 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Galitzine), the lead singer of the hottest boy band on the planet, August Moon.Amazon Studios partnered with Welle Entertainment to develop The Idea of You as a starring vehicle for Hathaway back in June of last year, as we told you first.
Tony Award nominee Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein) adapted the screenplay. Oscar winner Cathy Schulman (Crash, The Woman King) will produce the film via her Welle Entertainment label, alongside I’ll Have Another’s Gabrielle Union, Hathaway via her Somewhere Pictures label, Lee, Eric Hayes, Showalter and Jordana Mollick.
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