Sydney Sweeney has been cast in I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl, a new movie from Warner Bros.
I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl is a new mystery thriller movie that is based on a Reddit short story written by Joe Cote. A director is not yet attached to the project.
What do we know about I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl with Sydney Sweeney?
Per Deadline, Sweeney will also produce the film via her Fifty-Fifty Films banner. Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Trevor Engelson, and Aaron Folbe are additionally attached to produce, while the screenplay comes from Eric Roth.
“In the short story, a drifter impersonates a missing girl to rob their family — only to realize she’s made a terrible mistake,” Deadline’s article states.
Sweeney is known for playing Cassie Howard in Euphoria, while she also starred as Olivia Mossbacher in the first season of another HBO series, The White Lotus. Her filmography includes 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, 2021’s The Voyeurs, 2023’s Anyone but You, 2024’s Madame Web, and 2024’s Immaculate, among other titles.
As for other upcoming projects, Sweeney stars in Ron Howard’s Eden movie, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2024. She’ll appear alongside Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar in Paul Feig’s The Housemaid, which is based on the 2022 novel by Freida McFadden, and is also playing Christy Martin in a forthcoming biopic about the former professional boxer.
Roth, meanwhile, has received multiple writing Academy Award nominations throughout his career. He’s worked on screenplays such as 1994’s Forrest Gump, 1999’s The Insider, 2001’s Ali, 2005’s Munich, 2008’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 2018’s A Star Is Born, 2021’s Dune, 2023’s Killers of the Flower Moon, and more.
A release date for I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl has not yet been announced.
