We sat down with the people behind Prime Video’s latest romance adaptation, The Love Hypothesis, starring Lili Reinhart (Riverdale) and Tom Bateman. Director Claire Scanlon (The People We Hate At The Wedding) and Producer Elizabeth Cantillon told Yael Tygiel all about making Chapter 16 come to life on the big screen, with help from their intimacy coordinator. Plus, more about the choices and differences between the book to the movie.
Check out what Director Claire Scanlon and Producer Elizabeth Cantillon had to say below, and come back for our review of The Love Hypothesis on Tuesday, Sept 22nd.
Synopsis:
Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis follows Olive (Lili Reinhart), a brilliant Ph.D. candidate focused on her future in academia. But when she realizes her best friend Ahn (Rachel Marsh) has fallen for her crush Jeremy (Nicholas Duvernay), Olive impulsively kisses intimidating professor Adam Carlsen (Tom Bateman) to prove she’s moved on. What begins as a desperate act of friendship spirals into a fake relationship with rules, boundaries, and a mutually beneficial agreement. When their arrangement begins to blur the lines between performance and reality, Olive is forced to test her most daunting hypothesis yet: that love might actually be worth the risk.
The Love Hypothesis is available to stream starting September 23rd, only on Prime Video.
— Yael Tygiel