Warner Bros. has given the go-ahead officially to a new thriller named I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl, with Sydney Sweeney on board to act and produce the movie.
The film, which is adapted from a Reddit short story written by Joe Cote, has been scripted for the screen by Oscar-winning writer Eric Roth, reports Deadline. The story is about a drifter who impersonates a missing girl to rob her family but finds that her choice has deadly consequences.
Fifty-Fifty Films, Sweeney's production company, will be producing the project with a group of producers that include Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Trevor Engelson, and Aaron Folbe from Vertigo and Underground.
This is also a major production for Sweeney, who is busy producing and creating content. She was last the executive producer on Sony romantic comedy Anyone But You and produced the horror movie Immaculate, which came out at SXSW in 2024.
Aside from I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl, Sweeney has some big-ticket items on her future slate. She appears in The Housemaid, a thriller from Paul Feig, alongside Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar. She will also appear in and produce Scandalous!, a biopic about Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr.'s hidden love affair, and in Echo Valley, an Apple series with Julianne Moore, Kyle MacLachlan, and Domhnall Gleeson.
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