Only a few weeks in the past, players in every single place thrilled to be taught that Split Fiction, one of the preferred games this yr, was already on monitor to obtain the film therapy, and with no much less a star than Sydney Sweeney leading the charge. However Split Fiction’s developer, Hazelight Studios, is not stopping there. In accordance with some veteran insiders of the video-game-to-movie pipeline, Hazelight has extra film diversifications on the horizon, with a undertaking based mostly on their 2021 sport It Takes Two already in improvement levels.
These insiders we’re speaking about are Dmitri M Johnson and Mike Goldberg, co-founders of the media firm Story Kitchen, who has helped produce the Tomb Raider sequence for Amazon, all three of the megahit Sonic the Hedgehog films, and of course, Split Fiction. Showing on an episode of The Game Business Show, the pair confirmed that they had been engaged on an It Takes Two movie, and extra Hazelight tasks moreover.
“With Hazelight,” says Johnson, “We’re lucky to be working with them on several of their games proper now.”
Talking on what makes their collaboration a lucky one, Johnson says, “It is belief, it is friendship. It is that perception that, on the very least, as a result of it is fucking exhausting to get film and TV made, however on the very least they [Hazelight] know we will do all the pieces we are able to to strive.”
All that mentioned, the producers are acquainted sufficient with Hollywood to know that, though a movie could be in improvement, there’s nonetheless a methods to go earlier than it really will get to the massive display. “There is not any assure it should occur,” Johnson concludes, “However we will certainly lose sleep to attempt to make that occur, and do it with the very best integrity.”
As of this writing, there is no launch date for the Split Fiction film.