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The Idea of You: Cast, Plot, and More

Anne Hathaway is starring in “The Idea of You,” a film that follows a 40-year-old divorced mom who embarks on a tryst with a musician she meets at Coachella, Deadline revealed on Aug. 25. Reps for the movie didn’t instantly reply to POPSUGAR’s request for remark. The movie might be based mostly on the e book of the identical identify by Robinne Lee initially revealed in 2017, which turned an enormous hit a number of years later — Vogue calling it the “sleeper hit of the pandemic” in 2020.

Fans latched onto the story for its romance and globe-spanning intrigue — however the e book has extensively been characterised as Harry Styles fan fiction, for the reason that musician who kinds one half of the e book’s central couple is an element of an extremely standard British boy band. Lee advised Vogue that Styles did, in truth, present the preliminary spark of inspiration for the undertaking, saying she “was up late browsing music movies on YouTube” when she “got here throughout the face of a boy I’d by no means seen in a band I’d by no means paid consideration to. It was like . . . artwork.” When she discovered that Styles usually dated older ladies, the concept for the novel was born.

However, Lee spoke out towards the concept that the e book is Harry Styles fan fiction, telling the outlet that “The Idea of You” “was by no means speculated to be a e book about Harry Styles.” Instead, she stated, “It was speculated to be a narrative a couple of girl approaching 40 and reclaiming her sexuality and rediscovering herself, simply on the level that society historically writes ladies off as fascinating and viable and entire.”

Now, the story is headed for the massive display, with Michael Showalter directing and Gabrielle Union among the many movie’s producers. The film would not but have a launch date or trailer, however this is what we find out about it to this point.

“The Idea of You” Plot

The film model of “The Idea of You” follows Sophie, a 40-year-old newly divorced mother who takes her daughter to Coachella. There, she meets Hayes Campbell, the 24-year-old lead singer of an extremely standard British boy band known as August Moon. The pair embark on a fling that rapidly turns right into a whirlwind romance. They start a globe-trotting romance that grows sophisticated when it goes viral, and Sophie finds herself going through the ire of Campbell’s legions of followers.

Fans of the e book have already observed variations from the film; notably, within the e book, Sophie is 39 and named Solène, and she meets Campbell at a live performance as an alternative of Coachella.