Cut up Fiction Film to Star Sydney Sweeney, Directed by Jon M. Chu

Sydney Sweeney is ready to star in a movie adaptation of hit online game “Split Fiction” with Jon M. Chu directing, Selection has discovered. The script for the film is being written by “Deadpool & Wolverine” screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

The “Cut up Fiction” movie will likely be produced by Mike Goldberg and Dmitri M. Johnson’s Story Kitchen (previously dj2 Leisure), which is taking out the expertise package deal now to studios, and Chu’s Electrical Someplace. Sweeney is ready to govt produce.

From developer Hazelight Studios and writer Digital Arts, “Cut up Fiction” blends fantasy and science fiction, following a pair of authors, Mio and Zoe, who develop into trapped within the worlds they wrote. Written by director and Hazelight studio chief Josef Fares and Sebastian Johansson, “Cut up Fiction” is a co-op journey sport that options gameplay mechanics involving split-screen fight, platforming challenges and differing talents for every character.

Sources inform Selection it has but to be determined which lead position Sweeney will likely be taking part in: Zoe or Mio.

Launched March 6, the sport shortly grew to become a success with gamers and critics alike, receiving constructive critiques and large gross sales. In keeping with Hazelight, the sport bought greater than two million copies in the first week following its launch, and that quantity continues to rise at a speedy clip.

Selection first reported the “Split Fiction” film was in the works, and attracting high Hollywood studios for a bidding conflict, in the course of the Recreation Builders Convention (GDC) in San Francisco in March.

The package deal is shepherded by Goldberg and Johnson’s Story Kitchen, which is among the hottest gamers within the video game-to-screen biz proper now, with credit together with the “Sonic the Hedgehog” movies, the “Tomb Raider” franchise (with a brand new animated sequence that premiered on Netflix in October 2024), the upcoming “Streets of Rage” adaptation setup at Lionsgate, in addition to movies based mostly on “It Takes Two” (from the sport studio behind “Cut up Fiction”) and “ToeJam & Earl” at Amazon MGM Studios.