Sony Pictures and Will Gluck's Olive Bridge Entertainment have cast Amélie Hoeferle and Graham Campbell to star in Fake Skating, a film adaptation of Lynn Painter's bestselling book, Deadline reported. Josh Boone will direct, with Morgan Lehmann and Victoria Bata writing the first draft of the script with Boone and his writing partner Knate Lee handling revisions.
Set for a summer 2027 release, Fake Skating "is an emotional high school hockey romance about childhood sweethearts whose icy reunion in their hockey-loving hometown unexpectedly thaws when they fake a romantic relationship," Deadline noted.
Netflix is working on a film adaptation of Painter's Better Than the Movies, directed by Julia Hart and starring David Iacono and Beatrice Kitsos.