Sony Casts Hoeferle, Campbell In 'Fake Skating' — SkimNews
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- Sony Pictures and Will Gluck's Olive Bridge Entertainment tapped Amélie Hoeferle and Graham Campbell to star in Fake Skating, a film adaptation of Lynn Painter's NYT bestselling novel targeting a summer 2027 release.
- Josh Boone is directing the high school hockey romance about childhood sweethearts who fake a relationship to thaw an icy reunion; Morgan Lehmann and Victoria Bata wrote the first draft, with Boone and Knate Lee handling revisions.
- Source novel Fake Skating has sold nearly 500,000 copies, landed on the NYT YA Hardcover Bestseller list 48 times (holding No. 1 for 15 weeks), been translated into 16 languages, and won the 2025 Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fiction.
- Will Gluck and Jacqueline Monetta are producing with Madison Jones executive producing for Olive Bridge Entertainment; Painter herself serves as an executive producer.
- Hoeferle currently stars in Prime Video's Sterling Point and previously appeared in Eddington and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes; she is repped by Gersh, Affirmative Entertainment, The Lede Company, and Jackoway Austen.
- Campbell gained attention in the Tony-winning play Appropriate opposite Sarah Paulson and recently appeared in FX's The Shards and the Venice-premiering film Late Fame; he is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content, The Lede Company, and Jackoway Austen.
- Netflix is separately adapting Painter's Better Than the Movies, directed by Julia Hart and starring David Iacono and Beatrice Kitsos — making Painter a cross-studio YA adaptation franchise writer.
Why it matters: Sony is betting Painter's proven YA readership — nearly 500,000 copies sold and 48 weeks on the NYT list — over marquee star power, handing leads to two rising actors rather than established names. With Netflix already adapting her *Better Than the Movies*, Painter's novels are emerging as a cross-studio YA adaptation pipeline, and Olive Bridge/Gluck is positioning itself as the Painter specialist on the Sony side.
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