Anne Hathaway is making her most awaited return to the rom-com world with movie ‘The Idea of You’.
She hasn’t starred in a rom-com in nearly a decade and a half, making this movie a kind of a big deal to her fans. Nicholas Galitzine is going to be the lead actor opposite her. Nicholas Galitzine hasn’t stopped working since emerging as Hollywood’s new leading man over the last couple years. His previous movie the romantic comedy Red, White & Royal Blue has gained a massive success.
In December 2018, it was announced that an adaptation of the Robinne Lee novel ‘The Idea of You’ had been opted by Welle Entertainment with Cathy Schulman and Gabrielle Union producing. Union named the book amongst her ten favourite of all time in 2018. Union and Lee have been friends since the early 2000s. Lee, Eric Hayes, Belle Hope Dayne, and Jordana Mollick also serve as producers. In June 2021 it was revealed that Jennifer Westfeldt had adapted the novel and Anne Hathaway was cast in the starring role. In August 2022 Michael Showalter was confirmed as director. In September 2022 Nicholas Galitzine was added to the cast as the lead singer of “the hottest boyband on the planet.”
Plot of ‘The Idea of You’
Robinne Lee’s 2017 novel ( A Harry Styles fan fiction) and Anne Hathaway join forces in the swoon-worthy rom-com The Idea of You. The film follows the romance between 40-year-old art dealer and mother Solène (Hathaway) and 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine), English heartthrob and star of boy band ‘August Moon’(One Direction).
Solène is a 40-year-old art dealer in Los Angeles’s hipster chic Silver Lake, and isn’t particularly enthused about hordes of screaming fans of August Moon a band she knows little about. However, a misunderstanding leads to a meet-cute in trailer, during which the young Brit is instantly smitten with the beguiling mom. Solène is more amused than swooning. But the fact that she doesn’t seem to really know who he is — and that she isn’t flustered or overwhelmed by his celebrity — is refreshing to Hayes.
Their twist of fate meeting at Coachella spirals into a clandestine affair, but their extremely different lives put pressure on their relationship. Can it survive the judgment from the public? As Entertainment Reporter Belen Edwards wrote in our summer movie preview, “Tune in for the surreal One Direction similarities, stay for Hathaway and Galitzine’s sparkling chemistry, then get way too invested in the many bops from fictional band August Moon.”
Anne Hathaway in ‘The Idea of you’
For Anne Hathaway’s performance alone, we recommend watching ‘The Idea of You.’ Mashable Film Critic Siddhant Adlakha writes, “Enough cannot be said about what a tremendous performance Hathaway delivers here, practically warping the movie around her blazing screen presence.”
The plot might seem run-of-the-mill, but the dramatic tensions between Hayes and Solène – stemming from their differing lifestyles, and the disparity in what they want and how they read various situations, given their 16-year age gap are deftly expressed through wordless glances.
Nicolas Galitzine as Harry Styles
As a stage performer in The Idea of You, Galitzine lacks the pop prince’s high level of panache. But he is committed to rounding out the character with hidden layers behind closed doors. However, he frequently brushes up against issues in the film’s writing and editing.
Shooting and release dates
Filming took place in the Georgia cities of Atlanta, Savannah and surrounding areas in October 2022. The Idea of You had its world premiere at South by Southwest as the closing-night film on March 16, 2024. It is scheduled to be released as an Amazon Prime Video exclusive on May 2, 2024.
Fans are all very exited as the movie comes close to release. They are looking forward to see Anne Hathaway and Nicolas Galitzine’s chemistry together. The former fans of Harry Styles are also exited to see a fan fiction movie based on their favourite singer.
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