Overview
- Sony Pictures secured the Hollow film package in a competitive bid on Friday, July 17, attaching Sydney Sweeney to star as Katrina Van Tassel and to produce through her Honey Trap banner.
- Lindsey Anderson Beer will adapt and direct the movie from her forthcoming debut novel, which Putnam will publish in fall 2027 and for which translation rights have already sold worldwide.
- Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment is co-producing with Honey Trap, making Hollow the first feature produced under Sweeney’s new banner and signaling strong studio backing.
- Sony has begun high-profile casting for the other central roles of Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones, and the project is in active development with no theatrical release date yet announced.
- The project reframes Washington Irving’s 1820 tale by centering Katrina in a gothic, psychological and erotic-tinged love triangle, a creative shift that positions Hollow as both a female-led auteur vehicle and a cross-platform publishing-and-film event.