Hollywood Studios Are In A Bidding War Over The Movie Rights For One Of This Year’s Biggest Games

It’s been two weeks since Hazelight Studios followed up on its Game of the Year winning It Takes Two via Split Fiction, and its newest game appears to have been getting even more attention than you might think. Despite so little time having passed since the game’s launch, apparently, a movie based on its story is already in the works.

That’s according to a new report from Variety. The site claims sources at GDC revealed Story Kitchen is already deciding who will star in a Split Fiction movie and, more importantly at this early stage, who should write and direct the video game adaptation. It’s in the early stages – again, the game is only two weeks old – but Hollywood studios are already fielding offers for the project in what has quickly become a bidding war.

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Split Fiction follows Zoe and Mio who, having attended an event under the guise that they might get their respective books published, are being used by a corporation that is trying to steal story ideas right out of their heads. The company does that using a machine, and while fighting against the concept, the pair of authors accidentally end up in the same story-stealing bubble.

It Has Taken Two Weeks For The Wheels To Start Turning On A Split Fiction Movie

I Haven’t Even Finished The Game Yet

Zoe and Mio must play through each other’s stories in an attempt to make it out of the fictional worlds they’ve been thrust into, the machine used to extract their ideas crumbling under the pressure of having to deal with handling two authors at the same time. It’s a cool concept, and it’s probably a lot of people’s Game of the Year at this early stage in 2025, but most seem to love Split Fiction for its gameplay rather than its story.

The same applies to It Takes Two, although that has a movie adaptation coming our way too. While the bidding war for its rights, which Amazon eventually bought, didn’t begin quite as quickly as the one for Split Fiction, there was less than a year between It Takes Two’s launch and news of it getting a movie being revealed to the world.

It has been almost three years since we heard anything about the It Takes Two movie, the last reveal being that The Rock is attached as an executive producer. Maybe he’ll have a role in the film too – I think he’d make a fantastic Cutie the Elephant. It’s somewhat surprising Amazon didn’t strike some kind of deal for rights to future adaptations like Split Fiction and that a bidding war is underway. It’s also probably going to be at least 2028 until we hear more about a Split Fiction movie if the It Takes Two movie timeline is anything to go by.

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OpenCritic

Top Critic Rating:
90/100


Critics Recommend:
98%

Released

March 6, 2025

ESRB

T For Teen // Blood and Gore, Crude Humor, Language, Violence

Developer(s)

Hazelight Studios