Want a Split Fiction film adaptation? Well, you’re getting one regardless, with work on such a thing already having kicked into life, as it sounds like big Hollywood studios are falling over each other to fork over their loose change to get the rights.
To be fair, you can see why they would – pretty much everyone who tried it liked Hazelight and Josef Fares’ game about actually having real life friends who like the same kinds of games as you when it arrived earlier this month.
According to Variety, a movie based on SF is already being worked on, with production company Story Kitchen pulling together a cast, some writers and a director (you know, the stuff you actually need to make a film) to form a package that’ll create the thing.
It sounds like there’s plenty of appeal to the idea, with the site reporting that “multiple top Hollywood studios” are or will make offers for the rights to the film, with the winner of this “bidding war” set to come on board to make the film a reality, as Amazon did with a movie adaptation of Hazelight’s last game – It Takes Two – back in 2022.
That’s all we know for now, so you’ll have to wait for more info beyond ‘this is a thing and people who probably pretend to have seen Citizen Kane are interested in forking over fat stacks for it’. How will it adapt the game’s secret Laser Hell level some Chinese streamers earned a trip to Hazelight by beating just the other day? Will Josef Fares appear on a screen that’s on the cinema screen you’re watching to clap and say something like ‘you go girl, you made it to the theater and landed decent seats at the back so you’re not parked in front of a chair-kicking toddler’?
We have no idea, and probably won’t for a while – so watch this space.
In the interim, read our Split Fiction review, in which Kelsey wrote that the game’s “everything couch co-op fans want and more” and “a smorgasbord of belly laughs and references to cult classic media that will likely make you cry”. Damn, you know it’s good when one of us whacks out the word smorgasbord.
