‘Split Fiction’ creator isn’t convinced a movie adaptation will happen: “I’ll believe it when I see it”

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Split Fiction is set to be turned into a Hollywood blockbuster.Co-op title Split Fiction was released earlier this year and became one of the best-reviewed games of 2025, as well as shifting more than two million units.Last month it was reported by Variety that the rights for a movie adaptation of the game had become the subject of a bidding war.

However Fares isn’t convinced a Split Fiction movie will ever happen.“You know what I say? I believe it when I see it, because nothing has happened yet,” Fares told Variety. “It would be nice if it happened, but again, I’ll believe it when I see it.

Sometimes there’s a lot of talks, but nothing happens. So we will see.”It comes after his previous game, 2021’s It Takes Two, was also set to be turned into a film.

In 2023, it was announced Amazon had acquired the distribution rights to the project, with Dwayne Johnson one of the producers and Pat Casey and Josh Miller [the writing duo behind the live-action Sonic The Hedgehog movies] working on the script.“There’s a lot of talk, but not a lot of walk,” Fares said about the It Takes Two film earlier this year (via Eurogamer). “I don’t know what’s going on.