The launch of Split Fiction couldn’t have gone any better for Hazelight Studios and EA. In just two weeks, Split Fiction has become EA’s No. 2 all-time game on Steam. Now, a Split Fiction movie is reportedly in development, and the project is expected to attract a bidding war from Hollywood Studios.
According to Variety, Hazelight is reuniting with Story Kitchen, the media company that helped sell the movie rights for the studio’s previous game, It Takes Two, which landed at Amazon MGM Studios. The report indicates that Hazelight and Story Kitchen are already assembling cast members, writers, and a director for the pitch before Split Fiction goes out to potential buyers.
The game follows two young women, Zoe and Mio, who are strangers to each other before they find themselves trapped together in mishmash of the sci-fi and fantasy stories they’ve written. In order to escape from the virtual world and return to reality, the two women have to figure out how to work together and use their skills to survive the experience.
Split Fiction has the distinction of being EA’s first game to reach 90 or above on Metacritic since 2012’s Mass Effect 2. It also received a 10/10 score in GameSpot’s review. Hazelight announced earlier this month that Split Fiction has already sold two million copies, and it seems likely to be one of the top-selling games for March.
