The world of Split Fiction is about to become a live-action (split) reality. Amid a Hollywood bidding war for the rights to the movie adaptation of Hazelight Studios’ co-op title, Variety has reported that Sydney Sweeney (Madame Web, Anyone but You) will be starring in the pic.
Jon. M Chu, known for his work on Wicked and Crazy Rich Asians, is directing the upcoming pic, with Mike Goldberg and Dmitri M. Johnson producing under the Story Kitchen banner alongside Chu’s Electric Somewhere. Deadpool & Wolverine writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are penning the script, while Sweeney serves as executive producer.
According to the outlet, it hasn’t been decided if the 27-year-old will play Zoe or Mio, the two playable characters in the game. Other details, including a release date and the extent to which it stays faithful to the original story, if at all, were not shared.
Written by studio head Josef Fares and Sebastian Johansson, Split Fiction follows Zoe and Mio, authors who become trapped in the worlds they wrote. It features a genre-blending plot designed to fit into its co-op gameplay, largely centred on split-screen combat, platforming challenges, and differing abilities for each.
Following its release on 6 March, the game broke company records by selling over one million copies in two days, continuing Hazelight’s impressive track record. The team’s previous work, It Takes Two (2021), is also getting an upcoming film adaptation from Amazon and Seven Bucks Production.
The Split Fiction movie won’t be the only video game-related project on Sweeney’s plate — the Euphoria star is set to produce a live-action adaptation of Sega’s classic 1986 arcade series, OutRun, alongside Transformers helmer Michael Bay.
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