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Sydney Sweeney has landed her next big movie role, as the rising A-list actress has signed on to star in the thriller I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl. Sydney will also produce the project.
According to reports, I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl is based on a “Reddit short story” written by Joe Cote. In addition to starring, Sydney Sweeney will be producing the film, which is something she’s done more of in recent years, having produced Immaculate and her upcoming Christy Martin biopic.
In her role as producer, Sweeney personally recruited Academy Award winning screenwriter Eric Roth to write the script. Roth is one of the marquee screenwriters in holiday, having written films such as Forrest Gump, The Insider, Ali, Munich, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, A Star is Born, Dune, Killers of the Flower Moon, and more.
“In the short story, a drifter impersonates a missing girl to rob the girl’s family — only to realize she’s made a terrible mistake,” Deadline reports.
In addition to the aforementioned Christy Martin biopic, which wrapped production last Fall, Sweeney also has an adaptation of the novel The Housemaid due out, which is directed by Bridesmaids filmmaker Paul Feig and co-stars Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar, and Michele Morrone. Both films are expected to be released this year.
She’s also set to produce and star as Kim Novak in the film Scandalous!, which sees Oscar-nominated actor Colman Domingo make his directorial debut. The film follows love affair between Novak and the iconic Sammy Davis Jr., played by Alien: Romulus star David Jonsson, in 1957.
The 27-year-old also has completed films such as Eden — which co-stars Ana de Armas and Vanessa Kirby, and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September — and Echo Valley yet to be released, although neither of those films have release dates.