Prime Video is ready to show you how fun science can be.
On Saturday, the streaming channel released the first trailer for its upcoming film adaptation of Ali Hazlewood’s best-selling book Love hypothesis. Stars Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman attended Prime Video’s Obsessed Fest, an immersive fan event held Saturday in Los Angeles at Nya Studios, to showcase the first look.
Love hypothesisdirected by Claire Scanlon, follows Olive (Reinhart), “a brilliant doctoral candidate focused on her future in academia.” But when she realizes that her best friend Ahn (Rachel March) has fallen in love with Jeremy (Nicholas DuVernay), Olive impulsively kisses creepy Professor Adam Carlsen (Bateman) to prove she’s moved on.
But “what begins as a desperate act of friendship turns into a false relationship with rules, boundaries, and a mutually beneficial agreement.” The lines begin to blur for Olive and Adam, leading Olive to “test her most challenging hypothesis yet: that love might actually be worth the risk.”
In the short teaser clip, Olive can be seen surprising Adam with an unexpected kiss while her friend Ahn looks on, a scene that was also depicted on the book’s cover. The two then agree to a fake relationship, realizing that their peers are always watching them.
“I have to kiss you,” Adam Bateman says to Olive at one point. “Your friends, they’re watching you from the balcony.”
With the romance of STEM front and center, the trailer plays on Olive and Adam’s love of science by airing what looks like an educational video explaining how molecules are connected.
“Molecules stay in motion, vibrating and colliding until they find a match. When they do, something miraculous happens. They form a bond. Isn’t science fun?” The narrator can be heard saying in the trailer.
While talking about the film at Obsessed Fest, which was streamed live on TikTok from Prime Video, Reinhart and Batman reflected on their chemistry readings, their characters, and what it was like bringing the iconic book to life. They also poked fun at the trailer that leaked online on Friday, encouraging audiences to pretend like they haven’t already seen it before showing it on screen.
Since the film is based on Hazlewood’s book, Bateman stated that the book was “around the set” and “always front and center” for them as they worked to faithfully translate the spirit of the story.
“We all want to see a lot more love than hate, and that is it. I think it’s beautiful and I hope it feels timeless and feels like a movie you can go back to and watch with your friends and swoon over,” Reinhart said of the film. Bateman shared the same sentiments and expressed how proud he was of the film: “I’m really proud of what everyone did. I think it’s a really beautiful movie.”
Sarah Rothschild is writing the screenplay and Elizabeth Cantillon is producing.
Jabuki Young White and Artie Vrochan also star in the Amazon MGM film.
Prime Video’s inaugural Obsessed Fest fan event celebrates a slate of original YA titles including… After Every Year, The Love Hypothesis, Elle, Off Campus, Overcompensation, Your Fault: London, Last Sunrise, Drawn Together And more. During the one-day event, attendees will have access to exclusive first looks, live stream panels, immersive fan activations, merchandise, and to “the talent and creators behind the stories fans care about.”
Love hypothesis It will stream globally on Prime Video on September 23. Watch the teaser below.
