Sydney Sweeney‘s new video game adaptation has found its studio home. Split Fiction, which is set to be directed by Wicked‘s Jon M. Chu, has been acquired by Amazon MGM Studios. The film will be an adaptation of the popular cooperative multiplayer game which was released to great acclaim earlier this year. Deadline reports that the studio paid over $2 million USD for the project.
Split Fiction centers around two authors, fantasy writer Zoe and science-fiction scribe Mio, who are invited to test out an experimental virtual reality device. Something goes wrong, and the duo soon end up in each other’s stories, fighting to survive as they battle through a bizarre landscape of their shared ideas. Meanwhile, the VR company’s unscrupulous CEO is attempting to steal their ideas for his own use. There is no indication as to which of the lead roles Sweeney will play; she will also serve as an executive producer on the film. The script is set to be penned by Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, who busted the box office last year with the billion-dollar superhero buddy picture Deadpool & Wolverine.
What Other Projects Is Sydney Sweeney Working On?
After breaking out as troubled teenager Cassie on HBO‘s controversial Euphoria, Sweeney has been booked and busy. In addition to the upcoming third season of Euphoria, which she has referred to as “unhinged,” she is set to star in three films this year. First up is Echo Valley, a thriller with Julianne Moore, which is set to hit Apple TV+ later this week. Later this summer comes Americana, an ensemble crime drama with Halsey and Paul Walter Hauser, while Christmas will see Sweeney star alongside Amanda Seyfried in the Paul Feig psychological thriller The Housemaid. Further on the horizon are an as-yet untitled biopic of pioneering women’s boxer Christy Martin, an adaptation of the video game Outrun with Michael Bay, a reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe‘s The Masque of the Red Death, and a remake of the campy science fiction classic Barbarella.
Given that it was only released in March, Split Fiction is certainly one of the fastest game-to-movie adaptations in history. However, upon the game’s release, Split Fiction creator Josef Fares didn’t sound optimistic about a film adaptation: “You know what I say? I believe it when I see it. Sometimes there’s a lot of talks, but nothing happens. So we will see.”
A film adaptation of Split Fiction is in development; no additional casting or release date has yet been announced.
via Collider