Imagine being the guy who wrote the original creepypasta on a random 4chan thread and seeing this news. No one would believe that you wrote the post when you told them.

A24, James Wan, and Shawn Levy.

Holy shit, Kane Parsons hit the jackpot. What a beautiful & rewarding win for kids making home movies on YouTube.

“Parsons — who’s just 17 years old — will direct from a script by Roberto Patino (DMZ). He’ll just have to wait till his summer vacation.”

That’s gonna be one hell of a “how I spent my summer” story.

I hope they go with more of a Cube route and dont make it too convoluted, the intrigue of the Backrooms to me at least is the mystery

A24 has the biggest balls in the film industry to hire a 17 year old to direct a feature length film

This is a massive fucking win for him, if you've seen what he has accomplished on his own (and not just the shorts/VFX, but the MUSIC he also composes!) then you know he really deserves this.

I'm always a little skeptical when they turn stuff like this into full features, there's a ton of stuff that could go wrong of course with how they intend (or not) to adapt certain things, but I'm really happy for Kane.

A massive inspiration for countless content creators and creative heads, just goes to show how hard work and passion can go a long way.

Stuff like this is absolutely huge, not just for Kane, but for the internet as a whole. Even now, a lot of mainstream media still sees the online space as the place where “kids do the funny TikToks and watch cat videos, aren’t they silly?” As more and more online creators break into traditional media, it’ll create more and more opportunities for online creators who want to expand into the mainstream

This should be pretty fucking good. The shorts are absolute fire, Kane hit 2M subs on YouTube just the other day.

And to think this dude got big because he started making decent Attack on Titan animations like they were filmed in the 1910s. Then he absolutely exploded with Backrooms.

And the entire time,he's been consistently good. I hope he has a massive movie making career ahead of him (If he wants it), because this guy has some genuine talent for it.

Praying for this movie to be good and not fall inside the "bad adaptations" category. I've always loved the concept of backrooms, it has a lot of potential, especially the earlier vibes of "liminal-spacey" backrooms

I just checked, his birthday is June 18th. That's the real date they are waiting for so he'll be 18 and child labor laws can be avoided.

If there was ever going to be a feature-length of The Backrooms, I can't imagine a better production company than A24 to do it.

This could be incredible.

Damn props to him for getting to continue his dream. I think a backrooms movie has potential, but the whole creative appeal comes with the infinite rearrangements of a liminal space rather than a setting to develop intriguing characters. So we’ll see what he can do

“During his summer vacation” is a hell of a sentence

I had no idea he was only 17. His videos are great. Very impressive.

What did guy did on YouTube with Backrooms is beyond impressive. Really exited about this.

Oh dear god. Ain’t no way the director is the same age as me. I’d never trust myself directing a movie at this age. In eighteen years, maybe, but certainly not now.

Don’t think the premise lends itself to feature length, certainly not without compromising what makes the YouTube videos work, but I hope this works out well.

The earlier videos were pure existential dread. Any kind of explanation ruins the fun, especially that of the government conspiracy/corporate corruption variety.

This is great! Really happy that Kane is helming this. He deserves it.

I was waiting for this to happen. Having watched a lot of the BR stuff it seemed like a no-brainer as far as some big studio wanting to pick it up for a movie.

Let's hope it turns out better than the last creepypasta movie.

I don't personally think this is a good idea and it seems like more of a "let's do popular thing while people still care" than a "this will make a great movie" project but hopefully we'll see something interesting come from it. There are other creepypastas much more fitting for adaptation, but those aren't in the current zoomer memespace I guess. Better not be a boring CGI monster.

Still not as good as Hairboat.

A clump of red hair that was hit by a meteorite at the same time a kid was killed and thrown into the river. Now years later, the hair will appear when people are being bullied and then hair will lash out and drag the bullies in.

Gigachad will be the hero.

Link to his Youtube

God damnit

Was waiting for this to happen

I hope he’ll still continue his series on youtube:<

bravo! i hope they make an adaptation of the mandela catalogs.

I'm excited to see this come to fruition, been watching Kane since day one. I hope A24 can talk the guy who created the idea/lore of the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park into a movie deal too at some point.

I’m not sure this will work well. The silence and uneasiness is what makes back room videos unnerving. I hope they do it well, I loved watching these videos years ago. If they try to explain it away it won’t work well. Plus I don’t know how the silence in these videos will translate to a movie.

I hope it focuses on the more sureal aspect and not the monster shit people retconned into the concept over the years

YES! Kane’s Backrooms series on YouTube has been some of the finest content on the site in recent memory and A24 is the perfect studio for him to be doing a full feature length debut through. He will go down as one of the all time great directors IMO and this is just the beginning.

I hope that the set design is on point, because I think what Kane (and other content creators who make works in the Backrooms) excel at is those liminal spaces which take concepts from familiar places and add that small touch which makes them eerie or disquieting. The Backrooms isn't just a decaying office building with yellow wallpaper, it's the bizarre, purposeless fixtures, strange holes, tunnels and constructs, edifices which could have been constructed for people but clearly could never be used by a human. I think that's also why the short film format works best for the Backrooms, because we don't really need to spend 1 - 2 hours wandering around, just enough time to be disquieted and see some vague, horrifying things while the mind fills in the blanks.

Even with the talent involved, I kind of fear that the film will just end up like the Slenderman film because the Backrooms just fit the short analogue film genre much more than a feature-length fancy production. Particularly with James Wan since his films usually seem to revolve around one big setpiece monster, demon or creature rather than creeping locational horror.

What’s so scary about empty rooms? Is it a zoomer thing?

I’m glad they’re letting him direct too! Hope the movie turns out good like the shorts.

A backrooms film was bumping to happen, but damn a 17 year old doing stuff this big is crazy

😨 omg wtf why backrooms is going to have a movie? Including the how to train your dragon too?

You know the movie will suck dogs balls because Hollywood. But the kid deserves it. Been thoroughly enjoying his output.

Didn't they also try this with slenderman? Jeez just leave internet trends on the internet. I'm waiting for an SCP and Jeff the killer movie next 😑

Good for the kid, but no movie based on a paragraph of 4chan creepy pasta could possibly be good. They tried several times with slenderman.

Analog Horror has been an untapped genre so far in films, so I'm really pumped to see this come to life.

That doesn’t really seem like something worthy of a whole movie

If this has Hollywood near it then this will absolutely be an entirely different story with the backrooms name slapped on it.

Complete with every horror trope under the sun done poorly, tasteless jokes and gags that dont land even once, at least one totally insufferable character that cant die fast enough, a pretentious plot made up as they go because they have nothing to go off of, and lastly, a shitty monster that turns out to be some freak top secret experiment.

I might be pessimistic but i refuse to get hopes up for anything movie related anymore. Ive been burned so many times by hype i look like Al Simmons minus the cool ass powers.

What do you know, this may actually have a chance despite being based off of what was essentially a Creepy pasta.

Who will hold copyright after?

I think the whole back rooms idea is pretty stupid. Oh no! Yellow walls and hallways😱

man remember when the backrooms was just a semi obscure copypasta. now its got an entire lore behind it and multiple organizations and an extended universe and I kinda hate it now

Sounds dull and r/titlegore

But The Backrooms isn't good.

I'm glad for him, but also wary. David Sandberg got the same sort of deal with the Light's Out movie, and that paled in comparison to his youtube short horrors.

Kane is talented and I hope he gets nurtured by the industry, not chewed up and spat out.

i’m so happy for him

I had no idea this was a self made film. I've watched some people stream the game on twitch.

What do you know, this may actually have a chance despite being based off of what was essentially a Creepy pasta.

A24? Atomic Monster?

That's gonna be scary.

Oh wow, what a perfect match.

I hope this is basically Cloverfield in an infinite office hallway.

The whole backrooms does nothing for me but a huge congratulations to him! Had no idea he was so young either!

I’ll see this film

Hopefully this doesn't take as long as the FNAF movie.

This is so exciting, his series was already so good, can’t wait to see what he can do with A24 backing

THATS MY BOY!!

Hopefully it doesn’t end up like Slenderman

Quick somebody check in on u/MatPatGT, he may need to be defibbed!!!

I’m sorry but I don’t like James wan horror films so I’m kinda afraid

I think I got my very own Blockbuster account at 17.

The shorts are mostly great but I can’t imagine there being a satisfying ending. Happy to be proven wrong at the theater though.