Harry Styles fanfic doesn't die, it just changes forms in first The Idea Of You trailer
The Idea Of You stars Anne Hathaway as a straight-out-of-Wattpad character that falls in love with a younger boy band member (Nicholas Galitzine)
If you’re anything like this writer and you used to spend hours staying up to read fan fiction likely written by other lovesick 14-year-olds, wondering why the great powers that be hadn’t tapped Wattpad or Archive Of Our Own for the big screen yet, your childhood dream is about to be realized. Especially if you were at all involved in the world of “bandom” fic and especially if the band you were most interested in happens to rhyme with “schun schmirection.”
Michael Showalter’s latest film, The Idea Of You, is ripped straight out of a Harry Styles fantasy. Red, White & Royal Blue’s Nicholas Galitzine plays Hayes, a member of a fake boy band called August Moon who falls in love with an older woman, Olivia Wilde Solène, played by Anne Hathaway.
In the trailer, we learn that Solène is a gallery owner who meets Hayes at Coachella. Sometime after, he tracks her down and they strike up a real romance, to the delight of tabloid reporters and despair of teenage girls everywhere.
In the grand tradition of fake bands that kind of become real bands somewhere along the way (cough, cough Daisy Jones And The Six), Prime Video also created a fake Instagram page for August Moon complete with classic, weirdly posed boy band snaps of Galitzine and his co-stars Dakota Adan, Viktor White, Jaiden Anthony, and Raymond Cham Jr.. The “band” also shared their first-ever single, an almost perfect One Direction knockoff called “Dance Before We Walk,” that’s sure to “accidentally” find its way onto a Spotify Wrapped or two before the year is out. You can listen to the full track here, but be warned: it’s an earworm.
The Idea Of You premieres May 2 on Prime Video.