Blake Lively Movie To Film In Morris County

CHATHAM, NJ — A Morris County town is being transformed into a movie set next week, as filming for an upcoming romance movie continues in New Jersey.

According to Steve Williams, Chatham Borough administrator, the Fair Mount Cemetery, located at 233 Hillside Avenue, in Chatham, might be crawling with celebrities next week.

"It Ends With Us," which stars Blake Lively, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate and Justin Baldoni, is a movie based on Colleen Hoover’s bestselling 2016 romance novel of the same name.

According to IMDB, Lively plays Lily Bloom in the film, a young woman who moves to the city of Boston after college and decides to start her own business as a florist, only to fall in love with a young neurosurgeon, played by Baldoni.

Williams said that "It Ends With Us" will be filming in the borough on May 16.

Lively, Hoover and Baldoni serve as executive producers on the film, which is being produced by Baldoni's Wayfarer Entertainment Studios and Sony Pictures Television and began production last month.

According to the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission, the filming will take place around New Jersey from May all the way through June.

The novel "It Ends with Us" has sold more than 4 million copies since its publication and was on the bestseller list for 76 weeks, according to Simon & Schuster.