It Ends With Us achieved major box-office success, grossing $350m on a $25m budget and elevating Colleen Hoover's BookTok-driven profile into mainstream theatrical fare. The film paired Blake Lively's warm melodramatic presence with material reworked into emotionally mature adult storytelling, appealing to a suburban "minivan majority." Two further Colleen Hoover adaptations were scheduled following that success. Regretting You, directed by Josh Boone from a Susan McMartin screenplay, repeats several narrative elements of the earlier adaptation but lacks its groundedness, warmth and cohesion. The follow-up struggles with chemistry and the ability to shape soapy source material into coherent substance.
"The first big-screen adaptation of bestselling author Colleen Hoover, an initially self-published romance writer catapulted by BookTok to cult-figure status under the mononym CoHo, successfully elevated what many have dismissed as trauma porn fetishizing abuse into glossy, but effective and emotionally mature, adult theatrical fare. Lively, a Taylor-Swift adjacent style icon (to some) who excels at warm-hearted melodrama, was the perfect anchor for a film targeting"
"Directed by Josh Boone, a veteran of YA romances like John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, from a screenplay by Susan McMartin, perhaps best known as the co-writer of the B-movie Harry Styles fanfic After, Regretting You is a lesson in the intangibles of chemistry it contains many of the same elements as It Ends With Us (horrific trauma, competing romances, reconnection with a childhood love)"
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]