Over a month ago, we learned Hazelight Studios’ co-op adventure game Split Fiction was being adapted to film. Now, we know who’s directing and starring in it: Jon M. Chu (Wicked) and Sydney Sweeney (Madame Web), respectively.
According to Variety, the film will be working from a screenplay by Deadpool & Wolverine writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Sweeney will also executive produce the film, as she’s doing with the recently announced Outrun adaptation. Sources speaking to the outlet say it’s currently unknown whether the actor will play Mio or Zoe, the two leads of the game. At time of writing, she’s the only star attached to the project.
Split Fiction, which released this past March, centers on the two writers—Mio is a sci-fi fan, and Zoe a fantasy girl—invited by a book publisher to try out a device that makes their stories into reality. Instead, they wind up in a simulated mashup of their combined stories and have to find a way out before they’re trapped forever and the publisher steals all their ideas. It’s been a critical and commercial darling since launch, and its momentum will likely keep growing over the year, which makes it ripe for adaptation.
Both Sweeney and Chu have pretty full plates at the moment—she’s filming another season of Euphoria and is also starring in the Gundam movie, and he’s got Wicked: For Good out later this year and will direct 2028’s Oh, the Places You’ll Go!—so it might be a while before we see Split Fiction on the big screen.
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