Overview

• Sydney Sweeney will star in and produce the film adaptation of 'I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl,' a viral Reddit story written by high school teacher Joe Cote in 2021.
• Warner Bros. secured the rights to the adaptation in a competitive bidding process, highlighting its high-profile potential.
• Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth, known for 'Forrest Gump' and 'Killers of the Flower Moon,' is set to write the script.
• Joe Cote, the original author, will serve as an executive producer, marking his first Hollywood collaboration.
• The film is still in development with no director attached yet, and Sweeney will produce through her Fifty-Fifty Films production company.