Per the Writers Guild of America, East Separated Rights, the rights to "Sidney Hall", which had not seen active development for five years, reverted to Christensen in 2014. Christensen opted to independently produce "Sidney Hall" through Jonathan Schwartz's Super Crispy Entertainment banner, as well as his own Fuzzy Logic Pictures banner. Christensen cast Logan Lerman as the titular character, with a supporting cast that included Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Michelle Monaghan, Nathan Lane and Margaret Qualley. The film was shot between April and May 2016 and took place between New York and New Mexico. "Sidney Hall" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah on January 25, 2017. "Sidney Hall" was announced to have been acquired for distribution by A24 and DirecTV in April 2017, with DirecTV providing an exclusive pre-release prior to a theatrical release by A24. The film, re-titled ""The Vanishing of Sidney Hall"", had its theatrical release on March 2, 2018.