After winning the bidding war over the rights of a film adaptation of Marcus Kliewer’s short story ‘The Caretaker’, Universal has cast Sydney Sweeney as the leading actress and also the executive producer. The film will also be produced by Michael Bay and Brad Fuller.
The film will be under the banner of multiple film production companies, which includes Bay and Fuller’s Platinum Dunes, Scott Glassgold‘s Ground Control, and Sweeney’s Fifty-Fifty Films banner.
Kliewer’s 2022 novel tells the story about a young woman who takes on a caretaking job from Craigslist and learns about the depth of her responsibilities, which are more way than the ones she expected when she took the job.
Sweeney has worked her way into the upper echelon of actresses in Hollywood. She growth to stardom started in with roles in ‘Everything Sucks!’, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, ‘Sharp Objects’, and ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’. The breakthrough for her was her role as Cassie Howard in the the Emmy-winning HBO show ‘Euphoria’. Sweeney’s performance as Cassie has earned her three Emmy nominations.
The ‘Caretaker’ announcement comes the following day after Sweeney was announced to star and produced in Sony’s remake of ‘Barbarella’; a story about a lady named Barbarella, being sent into space by the President of Earth to explore space and to rescue a man from captivity.
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