Prime Video has increasingly embraced its identity as the streaming destination for swoon-worthy content. From Off Campus to Every Year After, the platform has been touting its lineup of sizzling summer YA and romance series and films as titles worth obsessing over, to the point that it even played host to its own in-person Obsessed Fest dedicated to the creatives, cast, books, and fandoms that have made these projects possible. At the top of its list of most-anticipated love stories, however, is undoubtedly The Love Hypothesis, the feature adaptation of Ali Hazelwood‘s surprisingly Star Wars-inspired novel following a Ph.D student whose faux relationship with an intimidating professor turns into something much more real. Prime Video is so confident they have a red-hot hit on their hands that, three months before its premiere, they’re doubling down on Hazelwood.

According to a new report, the New York Times bestselling author’s third novel, Love, Theoretically, is now also getting the feature treatment at the Amazon-owned streamer. It’s quite the romantic concoction, too, landing It Ends With Us author and all-around romance novel titan Colleen Hoover as a producer alongside her Heartbones Entertainment partner Lauren Levine and Magic Hour Entertainment duo Max Siemers and Tanner Anderson. Also on board is Sofia Alvarez, who will take the reins of the adaptation after spearheading Netflix‘s take on Sarah Dessen‘s novel, Along for the Ride. She and Hazelwood both executive produce.

Released in 2023, Love, Theoretically is very much cut from the same cloth as its Reylo-inspired predecessor, though instead of following a biology professor and Ph.D. student pretending to be in love, it centers on rival physicists caught in a whirlwind of fake identities and academic feuds. On one side is Elsie Hannaway, an adjunct professor of theoretical physics dreaming of tenure, who makes up for her lack of paycheck with a side gig playing a fake girlfriend for clients. On the other side is Jack Smith, the icy and infuriatingly handsome experimental physicist who torpedoed her mentor’s career and now serves on the hiring committee that stands between her and a coveted job at MIT. Worse, he’s also the older brother of her favorite client. Their respective positions set them up for war, but instead, their collision leads to more sparks than blows.

via Collider