Here’s a chilly one in the toils at Warner Bros.: Sydney Sweeney is connected to star and originate via her Fifty-Fifty Films, I Pretfinished to Be a Missing Girl.
The project is based on a reddit unwiseinutive story by Joe Cote. Fifty-Fifty notched Dune and Forrest Gump Oscar triumphning scribe Eric Roth to alter.
In the unwiseinutive story, a drifter impersonates a missing girl to rob their family — only to authenticize she’s made a terrible misget.
Vertigo’s Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Trevor Engelson and Aaron Folbe at Underground are connected to originate.
The White Lotus and Euphoria actress is taking a bigger hand in producing the projects she stars in, i.e. she was an executive originater on the Sony romantic comedy hit Anyone But You ($220.3M global gross and $103M net profit after ancillaries) and she shepherded the nun horror movie Immacutardy which world premiered at last year’s SXSW. NEON freed that pic.
Upcoming, the actress is an EP on Paul Feig’s The Hoparticipatemhelp in which she stars opposite Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar; that thriller uncovering on Christmas Day. In that feature get of the Freida McFinserten novel, Sweeney will carry out Millie, a struggling woman who is relieved to get a recent commence as a hoparticipatemhelp to Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew (Sklenar), an upscale, wealthy couple. She soon lachieves that the family’s secrets are far more hazardous than her own.
Sweeney is starring and producing Scandalous! in which he stars as Kim Novack. Colman Domingo is making his straightforwardorial debut with that project at Miramx which chases the clandestine adore afequitable between film star Kim Novak and singer/dancer and film star Sammy Davis Jr. in 1957.
Sweeney is also producing and headlining David Michod’s Christy Martin female boxer biopic.
Sweeney is repped by Paradigm and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox. Roth is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein.
