Sydney Sweeney (Immaculate, Anyone But You) will star in the feature adaptation of video game, Split Fiction. Sweeney also serves as an executive producer.

Jon M. Chu (Wicked) will direct from a script by Deadpool & Wolverine screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

It will be produced by Mike Goldberg and Dmitri M. Johnson’s Story Kitchen and Chu’s Electric Somewhere.

From developer Hazelight Studios and publisher Electronic Arts, Split Fiction blends fantasy and science fiction, following a pair of authors, Mio and Zoe, who become trapped in the worlds they wrote. Written by director and Hazelight studio chief Josef Fares and Sebastian Johansson, Split Fiction is a co-op adventure game that features gameplay mechanics involving split-screen combat, platforming challenges and differing abilities for each character.

Variety first reported on Sweeney’s casting.

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