EXCLUSIVE: Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni are attached to star in the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel It Ends With Us, which is in development with Wayfarer Studios and Sony Pictures.

Lively is set to reprise her role in the upcoming A Simple Favor sequel with Anna Kendrick, and Paul Feig retuning to direct.

She will make her feature directorial debut for Searchlight with the adaptation of the Bryan Lee O’Malley graphic novel Seconds, written and produced by Edgar Wright, alongside Marc Platt.

Baldoni is known for his starring role on the CW’s Jane the Virgin, but since then has moved more behind the camera with such films as Clouds and Five Feet Apart among his directing and producing credits.

Hall also wrote the English-language remake of Joachim Trier’s film Thelma for FilmNation and Craig Gillespie, and adapted Hold Back the Stars for Dan Cohen at 21 Laps and Lionsgate, and Stephen King’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon for Vertigo and Village Roadshow.

She is also writing the screenplay for The Husband’s Secret, based on Liane Moriarty’s bestseller and in development at Sony Pictures, In TV, Hall recently served as consulting producer on Apple’s Servant.