Sydney Sweeney (Immaculate, the upcoming The Housemaid) is set to add another genre string to her bow with a starring role in an upcoming adaptation of Joe Cote's Reddit short story titled “I pretended to be a missing girl so I could rob her family.”
Reporting the news today, The Hollywood Reporter let us know that Sweeney is also set to produce via her Fifty-Fifty Films banner, with Oscar-winning scribe Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Killers of the Flower Moon) penning the script. No director is yet attached to the project.
THR also confirm that Warner Bros. won the rights to the creepypasta adaptation in a “competitive situation.”
I Pretended To Be A Missing Girl (title TBA) centers on a young woman who shows up at a family’s doorsteps ten years after their 18-year-old daughter went missing. Her plan is to convince the family she is their missing child, and stay just for one night — long enough to steal some valuables and get away.
Producing alongside Sweeney are Underground’s Trevor Engelson and Folbe, Room 101’s Steven Schneider, and Vertigo’s Roy Lee and Mira Yoon. Cote will executive produce.
I Pretended To Be A Missing Girl joins the upcoming horror The Third Parent as an adaptation of a story posted to Reddit's r/nosleep sub.
Look out for more on I Pretended To Be A Missing Girl as we get it.
