Zoe Saldana as Katara couldn’t be any worse than the nepo baby in the M. Night Shyamalan train wreck.

But on an unproven new IP? That’s unusual. Like Split Fiction is popular, so it worked out, but they must have been putting in a fair amount of work on the prayer that it was well received. Also it took them a decade to get around to producing The Last Of US adaptation, one of the most acclaimed and narratively rich video game properties of its time. I haven’t played Split Fiction yet, but it is my understanding that it is fun, looks great, has some cool set pieces, but the story is not super interesting. To recreate and expand on that narrative seems like an odd choice then.

The game released like 6 weeks ago and it already has a film deal with a director and lead actor attached? What the hell?