There’s Already Going To Be A Split Fiction Movie – Popgeeks

Earlier this year Hazelight Studios, makers of the multiple award winning two-player co-op game It Takes Two, released their followup: Split Fiction. Like It Takes Two, the game is a split-screen affair where two players must play simultaneously and help each other out. Split Fiction has sold well, but it’s too early to say if it’ll be considered a hit on the level that It Takes Two was. That, however, hasn’t stopped Hollywood — they’re rushing full-speed into a movie adaption.

Jon M. Chu, director of Wicked, has been called to direct Split Fiction: The Movie and actress Sydney Sweeney has been hired to star. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who most recently wrote the script for Deadpool & Wolverine, are penning the script for this one too. Handling the whole production is Story Kitchen, the company behind the Sonic films. The unanswered question here is that Split Fiction has TWO main protagonists and they aren’t saying which one will be played by Sweeney, or who will play the other character.

Split Fiction’s plot involves Zoe and Mio, two struggling novel writers of different genres, getting mixed up in a scheme by a tech company to drain the ideas from their brains to power their AI supercomputer. To free themselves, the pair have to journey through their own stories, their only hope of survival being each other. The game’s available on PC and PS5…it couldn’t run on Switch but it will be there for Switch 2 on launch day.

As for It Takes Two, that was optioned for a feature film a while ago, with Dwayne Johnson rumored to star…but no one’s heard about it since. It’s too early to tell if either film will get made, actually. Stay tuned and we’ll let you know if the cameras start rolling.