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Sydney Sweeney is adding another project to her increasingly busy schedule. According to reports, she and famed Bad Boys, Armageddon, and Transformers director Michael Bay are teaming up for a film adaptation of the Sega video game franchise OutRun.
According to reports, Michael Bay, who most recently directed the 2022 film Ambulance, is set to direct and produce OutRun, while Sydney Sweeney is on board to produce. Sweeney launched her production company Fifty-Fifty Films in 2020, although it’s unclear whether the company itself is officially involved.
The report states that Sweeney is only on board as a producer “right now,” which suggests that could change in the future. The development of OutRun comes in the midst of a boom of video game adaptations in Hollywood, most recently with the massive success of A Minecraft Movie.
“Plot details are vague. Sega’s OutRun series is a franchise that originated from some of the most successful arcade games in the world during the 1980s. The game pioneered a new genre of driving games and spawned an electronic music subgenre aptly called OutRun.” [via Deadline]
While Sweeney is busy becoming one of the biggest movie stars in the world, she’s also started to expand her profile as as a producer, having produced her recent horror movie horror pic Immaculate and is also a producer on her upcoming Christy Martin biopic.
Sweeney will next be seen starring in AppleTV+ film Echo Valley alongside Julianne Moore, Domhnall Gleeson, Kyle MacLachlan, and Fiona Shaw, which releases on June 13. She’ll then be starring in Ron Howard’s Eden alongside Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Jude Law, and Daniel Bruhl, which hits theaters on August 22.
She also recently wrapped production of the Paul Feig film The Housemaid, and is attached to star in projects such as Scandalous!, Gundam, Barbarella, and the third and final season of HBO’s hit series Euphoria.