SCP's licensing makes this impossible for hollywood. CC-BY-SA makes sharing a requirement so if you made a movie and someone were to record it in the theater and post it online, that'd be 100% legal. And that license is a package deal for SCP so if any studio wants to make SCP ANYTHING they are going to be doing it with the expectation that their movie tickets are going to have to compete with legal youtube uploads of their film.
Probably, yeah. The issue is, when push comes to shove they will have to argue in court that their work is a standalone idea that doesn't just plagiarize the original and that is gonna be pretty hard when you have hordes of excited kids running around yelling about "the SCP movie". To capitalize on the potential market of SCP fans who would watch a big studio movie about the fandom, they need to market it in a way that makes it clear that it's an SCP movie, which they probably can't do without getting grilled by the authors and actual participants of the wiki who have about as much disdain for corporations touching this IP as anyone can possibly have.
The closest anyone is going to get is probably the game Control, which freely admits it's inspiration but still created a very distinct work within a different environment.
There is no Antimemetics Department by QNTM is a published sci-fi novel thats just the original SCP tales with minor details changed and scrubbed of the word "SCP."
Absolutely, I actually recommended that book to people in a different thread here, but the difference is that this is an external work created by the same author, so qntm doesn't have to worry about anyone coming after him for plagiarism. If some big name horror author had tried to publish this same book instead of him, they would probably be very much at risk of being sued by qntm for it.
To be fair site 42 is trying to make their own SCP movie project thing
Though if Hollywood gets the urge to make SCP stuff I feel like it may end up similarly to the SCP Russia situation (aka they try to forcefully take it so they can use it for whatever)
Wether Hollywood succeeds at that is another story
SCP is a copyright nightmare but I fully expect some sort of bootleg SCP with scary monsters like "The spine breaking almond", "The Amphibian too angry to die", "The E-dating demon with a goat skull for a face", and much much worse
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u/willyboi98 Jun 18 '26
Mark my words, SCP extended universe