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EXCLUSIVE: Hot connected nan heels of past night’s finale of nan Sam Levinson HBO bid Euphoria, Sydney Sweeney is leaning into her producing and perchance directing aspirations. She has formed Honey Trap, pinch longtime imaginative collaborator Kaylee McGregor serving arsenic President of accumulation and improvement nan accumulation company. Sweeney’s woody will beryllium group pinch a first look woody astatine Sony Pictures, wherever she starred successful and was executive shaper connected nan sleeper deed Anyone But You.
Sweeney is already moving pinch Sony connected nan TriStar Pictures remake of Barbarella, which Edgar Wright will direct, pinch Jane Goldman and Honey Ross moving connected nan book based connected nan French comic book bid from Jean-Claude Forest that was made into nan 1968 cult classical movie starring Jane Fonda.
Sweeney gets a batch of attraction for nan provocative messaging down her activity and nationalist beingness — her run for jeans-maker American Eagle caused nan banal to spike — but nan statement of Honey Trap is an acknowledgment that location is ambition and constituent down nan hyphenate. Sweeney has been a proactive portion of her movie successes, a catalyst successful moving pinch head Will Gluck to get Anyone But You. She enlisted Glen Powell to prima pinch her successful a romcom that nan amazed nan workplace and everyone other erstwhile it grossed complete $210 cardinal worldwide. Her ambitions see nan director’s chair, which could hap astatine Sony sooner than later.
Sweeney is coming disconnected starring pinch Amanda Seyfried successful Lionsgate’s adjustment of nan best-selling novel The Housemaid. That Paul Feig-directed film, connected which she was an executive producer, grossed astir $400 million. She’ll reprise other Kirsten Dunst successful nan sequel The Housemaid’s Secret, a movie that Lionsgate will sprout this fall.
Sweeney, whose first profession propulsion came from nan bid Euphoria and White Lotus (she sewage Emmy noms for each), seems now squarely focused arsenic an character successful nan movie space. Oscar-winning scribe Eric Roth is crafting a conveyance for her based connected nan Reddit communicative and consequent book I Pretended To Be A Missing Girl at Warner Bros, and she conscionable wrapped pinch Leo Woodall successful nan Josie Rourke-directed adjustment of Custom of nan Country for StudioCanal, pinch Rourke scripting nan adjustment of nan Edith Wharton novel. Sweeney is presently shooting nan Jim Mickle-directed Gundam successful Australia for Legendary and Netflix.
At Sony she’s attached to nutrient The Registration, based connected nan Madison Lawson caller being adapted by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski.
While nan 2 bid put her connected nan map, she gained fans successful nan manufacture pinch her portrayal of combatant Christy Martin successful nan movie Christy, and for playing NSA whistleblower Reality Winner in Reality, which premiered astatine Berlin wherever it was bought by HBO and premiered connected nan network. On Christy, nan David Michod-directed biographical play that premiered astatine Toronto, Sweeney took connected a task that had been antecedently attempted but knocked to nan canvas, and helped put nan pieces backmost together pinch Black Bear Pictures financing.
It will beryllium worthy watching really she handles this adjacent step. Sweeney and Sony provided her ngo connection for Honey Trap: At Honey Trap, we judge nan astir unforgettable stories unrecorded successful contradiction. Beauty and danger, intimacy and power, vulnerability and control. Our ngo is to create bold, cinematic movie and tv that challenges perception, sparks conversation, and leaves a lasting affectional imprint. We are committed to championing visionary filmmakers, analyzable characters, and stories that push beyond anticipation while remaining profoundly entertaining and emotionally accessible to audiences worldwide.
Sweeney is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Hansen.
