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Variety reports that Sydney Sweeney is set to appear in a film adaptation of “Split Fiction“, with Jon M. Chu directing. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who wrote the script for Deadpool and Wolverine, are in charge of writing the script for the movie.

Mike Goldberg and Dmitri M. Johnson’s Story Kitchen (formerly DJ2 Entertainment) will be in charge of producing the “Split Fiction” film, which is now being sent to studios, and Chu’s Electric Somewhere. Sweeney is expected to be the executive producer

Split Fiction is a 2025 action-adventure game developed by Hazelight Studios and published by Electronic Arts. As a cooperative multiplayer-only game, it follows authors Mio Hudson and Zoe Foster after they become imprisoned in the world of their stories when they are connected to a machine designed to steal creative ideas. 

Split Fiction was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on March 6, 2025, and is set to be released on Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5. The game received critical acclaim and sold over 2 million units in its first week after release.

Variety first reported the “Split Fiction” film was in the works, and attracting top Hollywood studios for a bidding war, during the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco in March.

The film is a follow-up to Sweeney’s previous project, and the second video game adaptation. A movie adaptation of the Sega video game franchise OutRun is being developed by the Euphoria star and Michael Bay. Universal Pictures is responsible for the project, with Bay to direct and produce, and Sweeney to produce.