A Reddit thread is getting the film therapy. We’ve all wished for it for some thread or one other, however it’s lastly occurring within the type of English instructor and frequent Redditor Joe Cote’s r/NoSleep horror story “I pretended to be a missing girl so I could rob her family,” which can now be made right into a characteristic movie starring Sydney Sweeney.
The Madame Web star is connected to look in and produce the film model of the story, which was revealed on Reddit simply over 4 years in the past in November 2020. Through her manufacturing firm Fifty-Fifty Films, Sweeney introduced on author Eric Roth to pen the script. Roth is finest identified for his work on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Dune, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Forrest Gump, for which he received the Academy Award for finest tailored screenplay. Alongside Sweeney’s producing energy, producers Trevor Engelson and Aaron Folbe from Underground, Steven Schneider from Room 101, and Roy Lee and Mira Yoon from Vertigo will even lend their skills.
As of now, there’s no director connected to the undertaking, however that didn’t cease Warner Bros from lately bidding on the package deal and in the end successful the rights to, in line with The Hollywood Reporter. Cote will government produce the movie, and it stands to cause that if the film does properly, we may even see extra of the author’s many tales tailored for the display.
There have been movies made primarily based on Twitter threads — bear in mind 2020’s Zola and 2023’s Dear David? And there have been many impartial movies primarily based on a Creepypasta story. But this seems to be the primary movie properly and actually primarily based particularly on a Reddit thread. In July 2020, Netflix did purchase the rights to Matt Query’s r/NoSleep story “My spouse and I purchased a ranch,” however as of now, nothing has really been produced by the streamer. As for the small display, Screambox has a collection known as Tales From the Void, an anthology collection that turns every episode into its personal r/NoSleep story adaptation.
Hopefully, that is the primary of many unbelievable r/Creepypasta and r/NoSleep writers and tales getting their due time on the massive display. The scares are loads over there; it’s about time somebody allow them to unfastened.
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Lex Briscuso is a movie and tv critic and a contract leisure author for IGN. You can observe her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
