‘Split Fiction’: Sydney Sweeney Cast in Feature Film Adaptation From ‘Wicked’ Director!!

Split Fiction, one of this year’s hottest new video games, is coming to the big screen. Sydney Sweeney is attached to the new project, making it the second video game adaptation she’s signed on for in recent weeks. Variety reports that Wicked helmer Jon M. Chu will direct the fantasy-science fiction adventure.

The game, which was released in March, follows two authors, Mio Hudson and Zoe Foster, who participate in a test of a new simulation device that allows them to enter their own stories. A glitch puts Mio and Zoe into the same simulation, and they have to travel through a dangerous blend of Mio’s science fiction story with Zoe’s fantasy epic before they travel deep into their own psyches to face their buried traumas. Sweeney will play one of the two leads, but it has yet to be decided which one she will play. It’s the second video game adaptation the ubiquitous actor has recently been attached to; earlier this week, she was reported to be involved in an adaptation of the high-octane racing arcade game OutRun, which will be directed by Michael Bay.

What Other Projects Is Sydney Sweeney Working On?

Sweeney is doing little to dispel her image as one of the hardest-working actors in Hollywood. This year alone, she will star in Ron Howard‘s historical survival drama Eden, which will receive its belated US release in August; Americana, a crime thriller with Paul Walter Hauser and Halsey; Echo Valley, an Apple TV+ thriller with Julianne Moore; and The Housemaid, a twisty psychological drama with Amanda Seyfried, which will hit theaters this Christmas. Also on the horizon for Sweeney is a biopic of pioneering women’s boxer Christy Martin; Scandalous!, Colman Domingo‘s dramatization of the romance between Hollywood stars Kim Novak (Sweeney) and Sammy Davis Jr. (David Jonsson); an A24 reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe‘s The Masque of the Red Death; a remake of the science fiction camp classic Barbarella; and a live-action version of the seminal mecha anime franchise Gundam. She is also filming the long-awaited third season of her breakout series Euphoria.

 

via Collider

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