Director Michael Showalter and author Colleen Hoover reveal the ending to erotic thriller “Verity” was very different before focus group screenings steered them in another direction.
By Marlow Stern
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©Amazon/Courtesy Everett Collection SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “Verity,” now playing in theaters.
To say that “Verity,” a new erotic thriller featuring the ubiquitous Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson — who gets to call the former “a selfish, Machiavellian cunt” — has sharply divided critics would be an understatement. This thing has taken a bigger beating than a piece of beef hanging in Rocky Balboa’s meat locker (our own critic called it a “a flat-footed dud”). And the majority of the film’s detractors took issue with its ending. (It is still predicted to win the box office weekend, becoming Hathaway’s third No. 1 movie this year.)
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