Lightsabers can be put away, class. We need the Bunsen burners out instead. Trade in one fascist space government for an academic committee, perhaps remove the patricide element involving your smuggler dad, blend in one fake relationship and you’ve got something akin to Star Wars crossed with Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney in Anyone But You. In this one, we don’t need to blow up the Death Star because we’re too busy swooning.
Lili Reinhart (Riverdale) and Tom Bateman (Based on a True Story) star in The Love Hypothesis, which is officially Prime Video’s No. 1 movie in the United States after premiering on September 23. The romantic comedy is based on Ali Hazelwood’s bestselling novel, a story whose origins famously trace back to Star Wars Kylo Ren x Rey fan fiction before it became a publishing phenomenon in its own right.
Based on the New York Times bestseller, The Love Hypothesis follows Olive, a Ph.D. candidate who impulsively kisses her department’s most intimidating professor, Adam Carlsen. Their mutual need for a fake relationship turns into an experiment in chemistry that might actually solve for love. This being a romantic comedy rather than an academic ethics seminar, their experiment eventually produces some results neither of them included in the hypothesis.
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The cast is led by Reinhart as Olive and Bateman as Adam, alongside Rachel Marsh as Anh Pham, Nicholas Duvernay(Bel-Air), Jaboukie Young-White (Only Murders in the Building), Arty Froushan (House of the Dragon), Aadi Maaj, and Jeananne Goossen (The Night Shift).
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
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🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
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You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
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The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
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You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
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Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
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The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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How Successful Is ‘The Love Hypothesis’?
Even prior to Hollywood coming around, the novel was a ridiculous viral success that had then spawned its own viral moments once the movie was in production. Reinhart and Bateman recreated the book’s famous one-armed lift for TikTok ahead of release, and the video accumulated more than 84.5 million views. Proof, if any was needed, that the scientific method now includes checking whether your lead can pick somebody up with one arm. We can tick that one off the list. We’re good scientists here, so put your feet up, bring out your scientific journals and prepare to discover just exactly what ingredients are needed to make you go “yes please”.
The Love Hypothesis is streaming now exclusively on Prime Video.
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