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Sydney Sweeney Set To Star In New Film Based On English Teacher's Reddit Short Story!

Shannon Keenan
Shannon Keenan

01:40 21 Mar 2025


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Sounds like she's another hit on her hands!

Sydney Sweeney is set to star in a new film based on an English Teacher's 4-year-old Reddit short story.

According to THR, The Euphoria actress will not only star in the film, but she will also produce it.

Working on the script based on Joe Cote‘s Reddit story, titled, "I pretended to be a missing girl so I could rob her family," is Forrest Gump writer Eric Roth.

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The story follows "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."

Warner Bros has won the rights to distribute the film, which will be produced through Sydney's Fifty-Fifty Films production company, with the author of the original Reddit story, Joe Cote also executive producing.

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