EXCLUSIVE: Tom Bateman (Murder on the Orient Express) has landed the male lead in The Love Hypothesis, Amazon MGM Studios and MRC‘s rom-com based on the New York Times bestseller by Ali Hazelwood.
He’s set to star opposite Lili Reinhart in the film following Olive Smith (Reinhart), a biology PhD candidate, and Dr. Adam Carlsen (Bateman), a hotshot professor and well-known tyrant, as they enter into a fake relationship, seeing each of their carefully calculated theories on love get thrown into chaos.
Claire Scanlon (Set It Up) is directing The Love Hypothesis from a script by Sarah Rothschild (The Sleepover). Elizabeth Cantillon (The Girl in the Spider’s Web, Charlie’s Angels) is producing, with Reinhart, Catherine Hagedorn, and Hazelwood executive producing.
Published in 2021 by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House, Hazelwood’s novel spent 10 months on the New York Times bestseller list, breaking out internationally in 40 countries, and was named the Best Romance of the Year by Amazon.
A frequent go-to for filmmaker Kenneth Branagh, Bateman has been seen in his Agatha Christie adaptations Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, and will soon be seen starring in his contemporary psychological thriller The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde. Upcoming, he also has Nia DaCosta’s Hedda, another film for Amazon MGM, which reimagines Henrik Ibsen’s famed 1891 stage play Hedda Gabler.
Other highlights of Bateman’s resume include Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives and Peacock’s Based on a True Story. He is repped by CAA, United Agents, and attorney Patti Felker.
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