'I'll believe it when I see it' says Josef Fares about a Split Fiction movie: 'There’s a lot of talks, but nothing happens'

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Fares also doesn't know the status of the movie version of another Hazelight game, It Takes Two.

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(Image credit: Hazelight Studios)

"Hollywood, there's so much bullshit," Hazelight founder Josef Fares told Eurogamer earlier this year. "I think 90 percent of the meetings are actually bullshit, and ten percent are what actually happens."

The outspoken creator of co-op hit Split Fiction was responding to a question about the film adaptation of his 2021 game, It Takes Two. The deal to turn it into a movie was announced several years ago, but since then we've heard nothing—and even Fares says he's in the dark about the status of the It Takes Two film adaptation. "I don't know what's going on."

"You know what I say? I believe it when I see it, because nothing has happened yet," Fares said during a chat with Variety this week, adding "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."

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