A Movie Based on a Reddit Thread Horror Story Is in Development — and Will Star Sydney Sweeney

A Reddit thread is getting the movie treatment. We’ve each wished for it for immoderate thread oregon another, but it’s yet happening successful the signifier of English teacher and predominant Redditor Joe Cote’s r/NoSleep fearfulness communicative “I pretended to beryllium a missing miss truthful I could rob her family,” which volition present beryllium made into a diagnostic movie starring Sydney Sweeney.

The Madame Web prima is attached to look successful and nutrient the movie mentation of the story, which was published connected Reddit conscionable implicit 4 years agone successful November 2020. Through her accumulation institution Fifty-Fifty Films, Sweeney brought connected writer Eric Roth to pen the script. Roth is champion known for his enactment connected The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Dune, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Forrest Gump, for which helium won the Academy Award for champion adapted screenplay. Alongside Sweeney’s producing power, producers Trevor Engelson and Aaron Folbe from Underground, Steven Schneider from Room 101, and Roy Lee and Mira Yoon from Vertigo volition besides lend their talents.

Sydney Sweeney is making a movie based connected a Reddit thread. Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Vanity Fair.

As of now, there’s nary manager attached to the project, but that didn’t halt Warner Bros from precocious bidding connected the bundle and yet winning the rights to, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Cote volition enforcement nutrient the film, and it stands to crushed that if the movie does well, we whitethorn spot much of the writer’s galore stories adapted for the screen.

There person been films made based connected Twitter threads — retrieve 2020’s Zola and 2023’s Dear David? And determination person been galore autarkic films based connected a Creepypasta story. But this appears to beryllium the archetypal movie good and genuinely based specifically connected a Reddit thread. In July 2020, Netflix did bargain the rights to Matt Query's r/NoSleep communicative "My woman and I bought a ranch," but arsenic of now, thing has really been produced by the streamer. As for the tiny screen, Screambox has a bid called Tales From the Void, an anthology bid that turns each occurrence into its ain r/NoSleep communicative adaptation.

Hopefully, this is the archetypal of galore unthinkable r/Creepypasta and r/NoSleep writers and stories getting their owed clip connected the large screen. The scares are plentifulness implicit there; it’s astir clip idiosyncratic fto them loose.

Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Vanity Fair.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.