Actress Sydney Sweeney, flexing her muscle as an actress and executive producer, is now attached to the developing “Split Fiction” co-op video game movie adaptation, to be directed by John M. Chu following two writers who become imprisoned in the world of their own stories, when plugged into a machine designed to steal creative ideas:

‘…’Mio Hudson’ and ‘Zoe Foster’ are writers invited by ‘Rader Publishing’ to test out an experimental simulation device.

“While the eccentric Zoe sees this as an opportunity to be published as a real author, the reserved Mio is only interested in the payoff.

“‘CEO J.D. Rader’ introduces ‘The Machine’, which allows occupants to experience the stories they submitted as reality. As the Machine starts up, each occupant is encased in a bubble and placed into suspended animation while they experience their story.

“Suspicious of the experiment and Rader's motives, Mio panics and tries to back out; however,...