Sydney Sweeney will star in Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the video game Split Fiction, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The Split Fiction co-adventure video game, from developer Hazelight Studios and publisher Electronic Arts, centers on a pair of authors, Mio and Zoe, who become trapped in the worlds they wrote. The game was designed to allow a split-screen co-op gameplay.
The role which Sweeney will take on has yet to be announced.
Chu will direct the film, with Deadpool & Wolverine screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick penning the screenplay. Mike Goldberg and Dmitri M. Johnson’s Story Kitchen and Chu’s Electric Somewhere will produce. Sweeney is set to executive produce.
The Split Fiction video game, released in March, sold two million copies in its first week on the market.
“SPLIT FICTION has sold 2 MILLION copies in 1 WEEK!! Holy crap, we’re blown away here! Simply amazing…. Thank you to all of our new and old fans — we love how excited you are for our game” Hazelight Studios wrote when announcing the game’s success.
The film marks another project underway for Sweeney and the second video game adaptation. The Euphoria star and Michael Bay are revving up a movie adaptation of the Sega video game franchise OutRun. Universal Pictures is behind the project that has Bay set to direct and produce, with Sweeney also on board to produce.
Sweeney is set to star and produce an adaptation of an English teacher’s Reddit story “I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl” and star in a Christy Martin biopic. She is also starring in The Housemaid, based on Freida McFadden’s best-selling novel of the same name, alongside Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar. The film will release on Netflix on Dec. 25.
Variety was the first to report the news of Sweeney’s casting.
