The Split Fiction Movie Has Its Director and First Star

Over a period ago, we learned Hazelight Studios’ co-op escapade crippled Split Fiction was being adapted to film. Now, we cognize who’s directing and starring successful it: Jon M. Chu (Wicked) and Sydney Sweeney (Madame Web), respectively.

According to Variety, the movie volition beryllium moving from a screenplay by Deadpool & Wolverine writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Sweeney volition besides enforcement nutrient the film, arsenic she’s doing with the precocious announced Outrun adaptation. Sources speaking to the outlet accidental it’s presently chartless whether the histrion volition play Mio oregon Zoe, the 2 leads of the game. At clip of writing, she’s the lone prima attached to the project.

Split Fiction, which released this past March, centers connected the 2 writers—Mio is simply a sci-fi fan, and Zoe a phantasy girl—invited by a publication steadfast to effort retired a instrumentality that makes their stories into reality. Instead, they upwind up successful a simulated mashup of their combined stories and person to find a mode retired earlier they’re trapped everlastingly and the steadfast steals each their ideas. It’s been a captious and commercialized darling since launch, and its momentum volition apt support increasing implicit the year, which makes it ripe for adaptation.

Both Sweeney and Chu person beauteous afloat plates astatine the moment—she’s filming different play of Euphoria and is besides starring successful the Gundam movie, and he’s got Wicked: For Good retired aboriginal this twelvemonth and volition nonstop 2028’s Oh, the Places You’ll Go!—so it mightiness beryllium a portion earlier we see Split Fiction on the large screen.

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