After the resounding success of Off Campus, Prime Video's book-to-TV adaptation which featured the 'fake dating' trope, the streamer is back with another adaptation. This time it is The Love Hypothesis, based on Ali Hazelwood's eponymous novel, adapted as a film by Sarah Rothschild, with Claire Scanlon serving as the director.
As a part of Prime Video's Obsessed Fest, which was kickstarted on June 27, the streamer unveiled the teaser trailer of the upcoming film. Lili Reinhart features as a research scientist who decides to fake a relationship with her professor, played by Tom Bateman.
The official synopsis of The Love Hypothesis reads, "It follows Olive (Lili Reinhart), a brilliant Ph.D. candidate focused on her future in academia. But when she realises 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."
Interestingly, Ali Hazelwood's first version of the story was published online in 2018 as Head Over Feet, a Star Wars fan fiction work about the "Reylo" ship between Rey and Kylo Ren. It was later published as a novel with the current title and after removing the Star Wars references in 2021.
Also starring Jaboukie Young-White and Arty Froushan, The Love Hypothesis is produced by Elizabeth Cantillon under The Cantillon Company banner along with MRC and Bisous Pictures. Distributed by Amazon MGM Studios, the film will premiere on Prime Video on September 23.
