The film, based on Robinne Lee’s bestselling eponymous contemporary novel based on Harry Styles, centers on Sophie (Hathaway), a 40-year-old divorced mother.
Sophie’s husband Dan left her for a younger woman, and now he has cancelled his Coachella trip with their 15-year-old daughter. Sophie picks up the pieces and braves the crowds and desert heat. There, she meets 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Galitzine), the lead singer of the best boy band on the planet, August Moon.
Michael Showalter will direct The Idea Of You. Academy Award-winning producer Cathy Schulman will produce the film via her Welle Entertainment label, joined by Gabrielle Union and Anne Hathaway via her Somewhere Pictures label.
Robinne Lee, Eric Hayes, Michael Showalter, and Jordana Mollick. Jennifer Westfeldt wrote the screenplay and will executive produce. I’ll Have Another’s Kian Gass will also executive produce the project.
Meanwhile, Nicholas Galitzine will next be seen in Prime Video’s romantic comedy Red, White & Royal Blue, based on Casey McQuiston’s New York Times and USA Today best-selling novel of the same name and Bottoms from MGM’s Orion Pictures.
He also recently starred as the male lead in Netflix’s Purple Hearts, alongside Sofia Carson, and as Prince Robert in Prime Video’s Cinderella, opposite Camila Cabello.
