Right here’s a cool one within the works at Warner Bros.: Sydney Sweeney is connected to star and produce through her Fifty-Fifty Movies, I Pretended to Be a Lacking Lady.
The venture is predicated on a reddit quick story by Joe Cote. Fifty-Fifty notched Dune and Forrest Gump Oscar profitable scribe Eric Roth to adapt.
Within the quick story, a drifter impersonates a lacking lady to rob their household — solely to appreciate she’s made a horrible mistake.
Vertigo’s Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Trevor Engelson and Aaron Folbe at Underground are connected to provide.
The White Lotus and Euphoria actress is taking a much bigger hand in producing the tasks she stars in, i.e. she was an government producer on the Sony romantic comedy hit Anybody However You ($220.3M international gross and $103M web revenue after ancillaries) and he or she shepherded the nun horror film Immaculate which world premiered eventually yr’s SXSW. NEON launched that pic.
Upcoming, the actress is an EP on Paul Feig’s The Housemaid through which she stars reverse Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar; that thriller opening on Christmas Day. In that function take of the Freida McFadden novel, Sweeney will play Millie, a struggling girl who’s relieved to get a contemporary begin as a housemaid to Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew (Sklenar), an upscale, rich couple. She quickly learns that the household’s secrets and techniques are much more harmful than her personal.
Sweeney is starring and producing Scandalous! through which he stars as Kim Novack. Colman Domingo is making his directorial debut with that venture at Miramx which follows the clandestine love affair between movie star Kim Novak and singer/dancer and movie star Sammy Davis Jr. in 1957.
Sweeney can also be producing and headlining David Michod’s Christy Martin feminine boxer biopic.
Subsequent film for Sweeney is Apple’s Echo Valley with Juliane Moore, Kyle MacLachlan and Domhnall Gleeson.
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 Pattern & Klein.