Sony and Columbia Pictures are set to adapt Lynn Painter’s sports romance novel “Fake Skating” directed by Josh Boone and set for release on July 16, 2027.

Adapted by Morgan Lehmann and Victoria Bata with Boone and his writing partner Knate Lee handling revisions, “Fake Skating” tells the story of former childhood sweethearts who have an icy reunion in their hockey-loving hometown, only for the ice to thaw when they fake a romantic relationship.

Will Gluck and Jacqueline Monetta are producing and Madison Jones is executive producing on behalf of Olive Bridge Entertainment. Lynn Painter will also serve as an executive producer.

“Fake Skating” inserts into a mid-July opening slat that is in between the release of two Warner Bros. sequels: the “Superman” DC sequel “Man of Tomorrow” and Legendary’s sequel to “A Minecraft Movie.”

While Sony may not have as deep of a pool of theatrical IP as other studios, it has found success in lower-budget literary adaptations like Colleen Hoover’s “It Ends With Us,” which grossed $350 million at the global box office, and “Where the Crawdads Sing,” which grossed $144 million.

Boone is a veteran of romance films, having recently directed Paramount’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s “Regretting You” and adapting John Green’s “The Fault in Our Stars” into a 20th Century Fox feature film back in 2014. He is repped by WME and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. 

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