The Ugly Love movie was cancelled before full production ever began, and it has never been released. A 2015 teaser featuring Canadian model Nick Bateman generated enormous fan excitement, but the film option later expired and the rights reverted to author Colleen Hoover. No major studio has picked up the project since.
Colleen Hoover's Ugly Love was first published on 5 August 2014 by Atria Books. It is a tale of love, control, and the devastating secrets that can destroy it all. The novel quickly built a devoted readership, and it spent three weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.
One of Hoover's hit novels, the 2014 Ugly Love, was expected to become an adaptation starring Nick Bateman, but the project was abandoned, despite the producers starting a funding campaign for the film for fans to donate.
The collapse of the adaptation came down to several overlapping problems, none of which the independent production team was able to resolve.
Hollywood development often hinges on fragile timelines for book options, and Ugly Love hit that wall hard. Producers secured rights from Hoover around 2014, enough to fund the teaser and announce Bateman in the lead.
