A live-action film adaptation of Break up Fiction, EA and Hazelight’s just lately launched hit co-op sport, is transferring ahead in accordance with new report claiming that the director of Depraved is about to helm the movie. It’s additionally reported that Sydney Sweeney will star within the adaptation that’s being written by the group behind Deadpool & Wolverine.
On March 21, Selection first reported that there was a bidding warfare in Hollywood over the live-action film rights to EA’s Break up Fiction. The sport was a large hit for EA, at one level reaching over 250,000 concurrent gamers on Steam and promoting 2+ million copies in its first week. Break up Fiction additionally obtained rave evaluations from critics. Manufacturing firm Story Kitchen is reportedly serving to EA and Hazelight develop the movie. And now we reportedly know who’s directing, writing, and starring within the adaptation.
On Thursday, Selection reported that Sydney Sweeny (Euphoria) is about to star within the Break up Fiction film. It’s unknown which of the 2 essential characters—Zoe or Mio—she is going to play. The outlet additionally reported that the upcoming adaptation can be directed by Jon M. Chu, who beforehand directed Loopy Wealthy Asians and Depraved.
The outlet additionally claims that its sources say the film’s screenplay can be written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the identical duo behind final 12 months’s mega-blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine. Sweeney is reportedly going to be an government producer on the film, too.
Story Kitchen has shortly turn out to be an enormous participant within the online game adaptation enterprise in Hollywood. The manufacturing firm helped get the live-action Sonic films off the bottom, in addition to the animated Tomb Raider sequence on Netflix. The corporate can also be growing a Streets of Rage film and a movie based mostly on It Takes Two, which was additionally developed by Hazelight and printed by EA. Nonetheless, that challenge (like so many different online game films) appears to have stalled at Amazon, whereas Break up Fiction is transferring alongside extraordinarily shortly.
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