New Delhi, Oct. 23 -- The plot of the new Colleen Hoover adaptation "Regretting You" is a little wild. There's romance, an affair, unrequited love, death and even a baby with questionable paternity.

Dave Franco, whose character has long pined for Allison Williams' character but ends up having a child with her sister who is having an affair with her brother-in-law, said someone recently exclaimed to him, "What in the Maury Povich was that?"

Tabloid talk show fodder though they might be, Hoover's novels have hit a nerve with audiences and Hollywood. "It Ends With Us" made over $350 million worldwide against a $25 million budget and "Regretting You," in theaters Friday, is one of several big-screen adaptations in the works.

"I think Colle...