Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni cast in 'It Ends With Us' movie, Colleen Hoover reveals
Lily and Ryle are coming to to the big screen – and now we know which stars will portray them.
"Gossip Girl" star Blake Lively and "Jane The Virgin" actor Justin Baldoni are set to play opposite each other in the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's best-selling "It Ends With Us," the author announced Thursday.
"Our Lily is going to be played by Blake Lively. Blake Lively, y'all! She's my dream Lily," Hoover shared in an Instagram video.
"Then when I first met Justin Baldoni, who is directing the film for 'It Ends With Us,' I immediately wanted him to be Ryle," she said. "I just thought that he had what it takes to play that character. The good news is he's going to be Ryle. So we have our Ryle and our Lily."
She added that she thinks Lively and Baldoni "have what it takes to bring these characters to life."
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Baldoni shared Hoover's post on his Instagram page, writing "Here we go!!!!"
Hoover also shared in her video that "It Ends With Us" is "loosely inspired" by her mom. She thanked her mother whom she said "got us out of a scary situation when I was little."
Hoover dominated USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list last year.
Her 2016 book "It Ends With Us," which follows Ryle and Lily's complicated relationship when a man from Lily's past shows up, is one of Hoover's most popular and well-received novels. Last year, the book made its way back to USA TODAY's bestsellers list ahead of its sequel, "It Starts With Us," which arrived Oct. 18.
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Many of Hoover's plot lines involve emotionally intense situations including sexual assault, surviving trauma, infertility and abusive relationships.
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Contributing: Mary Cadden
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni cast in 'It Ends With Us' movie
