After, A Former One Direction Fanfic, Comes To Life With New Trailer

It's a tale as old as time: Good girl falls for bad boy. Bad boy is hiding a dark secret. Good women life is forever changed because of it. Love prevails.


Upcoming romance flick After looks to follow that same pattern, plus it looks like some seriously delectable eye candy.


The trailer, set to Selena Gomez's sultry "Good For You," follows college student Tessa Young (Josephine Langford) as she leaves residence and stumbles through her freshman year. She is a dedicated student and awesome daughter, and she's still dating her high school sweetheart. She is a veritable "good girl" of the highest caliber.


So as soon as she moves out to attend school, college life changes her world significantly. Her sheltered world starts to open up while she comes face to face with the mysterious rebel Hardin Scott (Hero Fiennes Tiffin). He's dark. He has tattoos. He wears Ramones t-shirts. Oh yeah. He is a bad boy, alright.


One of Tessa's first encounters with Hardin is at a party where, while playing Spin the Bottle, she's asked to kiss him — and she declines. However there's no denying the magnetism, and we visualize the two growing closer and closer. The attraction was intense and immediate, apparently, and before she understands it, Tessa is sucked in fully. However that's before she discovers something unexpected about her whirlwind romance with Hardin. Needless to say, the trailer doesn't reveal what that is, however it definitely looks like he's got some skeletons in his closet (maybe literal ones?).


Immediately after is based on a book series of the same name by Anna Todd. Hilariously enough, it started life as One Direction fan fiction published to Wattpad, where it took off with an astronomical quantity of monthly readers.


Originally, Hardin Scott was actually Harry Styles. The story was eventually picked up by major publisher Simon & Schuster before being optioned for a movie, and right now we get to be able to see the majorly steamy former fanfic play out on the big screen.


The movie, from All This Panic director Jenny Gage, is due out on April 12. In the meantime, we suggest checking out some of the original story by way of the Wattpad. It's certainly a trip.