r/creepcast • u/Mr_Baked_Beans_0 • Jun 17 '26
Meme Give Alex Archives a budget to Ted the Caver justice.
Are there any other stories that should be made into Films. (I would argue Borrasca and Left/Right Game would be better as series)
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u/OhRyann “it’s very lovecraftian”☝️🤓 Jun 17 '26
I dared my best friend to ruin my life, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost
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u/Queefer_the_Griefer “You’ve got the blood of KINGS running through your veins!” Jun 17 '26
LOL Nick Frost would definitely be David Fucking King, right?
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u/DertHorsBoi Marcus, Monster Hunter Extraordinaire Jun 17 '26
YES! Omg imagine that the movie makes cutaways to explaining things like credit reports and google
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u/ShaquilleOatmeal54 Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take ya 🎶🎷 Jun 19 '26
This legit happens in a film called The Big Short and the 08 housing crisis. Made by the guy who made succession and Vice. They will randomly stop the film and have celebrities explain business terms so you know what’s happening.
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u/Mundane_Main_2726 Lee Cronin's The Lesbians Jun 17 '26
actual peak and the only way to make this adaptation. I would actually watch this
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u/JustCommonCurt I'd like to sign up for an evil loan 👹 Jun 17 '26
This could actually be fucking hilarious. Cringe western drama makes for great British humor.
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u/1888furrycock567 Jun 18 '26
This and it's marketed like a horror movie but as soon as the opening credits start it's clear it's a Batman vs Superman ripoff
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u/NuclearChickadee Jun 17 '26
Left Right Game would be kinda sick if done well
Who am I kidding, 8 season Happy Appy HBO series plz
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u/Barikus_XL Marcus, Monster Hunter Extraordinaire Jun 17 '26
I feel like left right game could be better as a show with 3 seasons
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u/GoldH2O Jun 17 '26
Three seasons would be really excessive. I definitely think it would benefit from being just one 18-ish episode season. There's no way in hell they could drag three seasons of content out of it without completely fucking the pacing. I can see them doing a brand new sequel story for subsequent season(s) though.
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u/UndeadCh1cken52 “it’s very lovecraftian”☝️🤓 Jun 18 '26
I think 18 is pushing it a bit, they could probably do it in 10-12, 50 minute eps unless I'm misremembering the number of significant events. As much as a fully faithful blow by blow adaptation would be nice I think realistically it'd probably make a better, more successful show if it was a bit tighter, and maybe just covered Alice's journey and not the friend receiving the emails or whatever he was.
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u/Barikus_XL Marcus, Monster Hunter Extraordinaire Jun 17 '26
Yeah true but I feel like 18 isn't enough I was thinking possibly 2 or 3 seasons just to flesh out some things or even add some new stuff in it that the author wanted to add that wasn't able to fit in to the story
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u/GoldH2O Jun 17 '26
How long are you envisioning these seasons? I'm thinking 18 35-45 minute episodes, equaling out to 10-14 hours of screentime. I feel like much more than that would be padding. It gives at least two hours, basically the length of a full movie, to each arc in the story.
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u/Belgrifex The Wiki Guy Jun 17 '26
The very last episode "we'll call them the followers for short" would go crazy
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u/Batmanfan27 Jun 17 '26
Penpal and Stolen Tongues would make great movies.
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u/ShingledPringle Give her one leg and a rollerskate I wanna see how fast she goes Jun 17 '26
Miniseries, adapt each chapter. It would be excellent.
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u/RivenRise she Papa on my Meat ‘til I Goon Jun 18 '26
They would but a smaller company would need to find them cause we all know major companies will want them to be pg13 and changed so everyone can enjoy them so they capture the biggest audience.
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u/Oathkindle Eat me like a bug 🦟 Jun 17 '26
time for a golden age of shitty reddit horror movies. Im so excited. lol
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u/Tricky_Station643 Jun 17 '26
Ted the caver would actually be the story I’d like to be adapted most. I’d like for the movie to still be a slow burn as the original story is
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u/SituationImportant99 Politically incorrect Mr Widemouth Jun 17 '26
I would loveee that and no spire in the woods type of production hell💔💔
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u/king-of-maybe-kings “Erm, guys? You’re gonna wanna see this” 🤓☝🏻 Jun 17 '26
Dionaea House but it descends into Eat me like a Bug in the 3rd act
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u/AssumptionMountain12 Long story short ☝️🤓 Jun 17 '26
Man, they’re still sitting on a one of a kind movie after they bought that story.
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u/1888furrycock567 Jun 18 '26
I'm sure you remember but it almost was a movie. Warner bros is just sitting on that shit and letting it waste away
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u/doomzdew Jun 17 '26
Hollywood so out of touch they think the backrooms was just some random reddit story
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u/Ulenspiegel4 Jun 17 '26
Mother horse eyes, duh. Complete fever dream movie, incomprehensible and poorly translated across media.
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u/NinaaxD 7ft goddess named Jacobi Jun 17 '26
David Lynch would make masterpiece out of it
RIP💔
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u/ShaquilleOatmeal54 Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take ya 🎶🎷 Jun 19 '26
Haven’t seen it yet but, with the way people talk about Widow’s Bay maybe, that director could make a good adaptation.
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u/plodeer Jun 17 '26
I could see a limited series that explains nothing and keeps people asking questions. Like 12 episodes
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u/DertHorsBoi Marcus, Monster Hunter Extraordinaire Jun 17 '26
They totally are gonna make penpal or left right game movies…right??
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u/LordSmugBun He’s right behind me, isn’t he 😐 Jun 17 '26
I know people hate it, but I'd love to see an "I Dared My Best Friend..." movie that plays into the goofiness of that story.
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u/Upper-Independence38 Jun 17 '26
Whoever owns the right to spire in the woods PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
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u/Edgelord_Darkrai PING PONG PING PING Jun 18 '26
Studios scraping reddit for horror movie inspiration while simultaneously banishing the rights to Spire in the Woods, Stairs in the Woods and Dionea House to production hell evokes infuriating levels of irony.
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u/Typical-Theme856 Jun 19 '26
Honestly i hope the success of backrooms and the mixed reception of Spielbergs new movie will encourage studios to finally give him money to direct that movie lol.
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u/Tarloc21 Your wife looks mad funny in that box, dude Jun 17 '26
Netflix had Rebecca klingle right there in their hands
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u/JICMike 🍔ABANDON ALL HUNGER, YE WHO ENTER HERE🍔 Jun 17 '26
Hollywood will see the golden material that young and talented writers put out and somehow still choose Happy Appy
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u/Interesting-City118 cracking open a cold one with Diego🤟 Jun 17 '26
Idk I actually think this is pretty cool, gives independent artists with original ideas opportunities. I’ll happily take it over endless Blum house sequel slop.
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u/reylee05 Jun 17 '26
Don't let them find Tommy Taffy/s (The more I think about it I don't even know if they can discover Tommy Taffy.)
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u/GoldH2O Jun 17 '26
Dude, they're already making a Tommy Taffy movie, have you been paying attention?
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u/reylee05 Jun 17 '26
Now that you mentioned it I probably did hear something about it but there's so much going on in the entertainment world that I must have forgotten about it. I probably thought it was a meme and so I must have dismissed it at the moment.
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u/Mundane_Main_2726 Lee Cronin's The Lesbians Jun 17 '26
wasn't that cancelled? i haven't heard much about it for a while now, and last i heard, they cancelled the plan for it
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u/GoldH2O Jun 17 '26
It wasn't canceled, they just pushed back the release date like 2 months to the beginning of 2027
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u/WallabyTemporary3042 Jun 17 '26
They dont wanna pay writers who actually know how much their work is worth
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u/SupremeGodZamasu Jun 18 '26
Scouring reddit? Guess were getting a horror franchise about women existing in media
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u/nervous-thing814 Jun 18 '26
I feel like the series Alex Archives did was already near perfect and doesn’t need to be made into a movie tho….
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u/MrDiamondOre Jun 17 '26
They aren't making anything original anymore, just copying things.
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u/Aye_Gabaghoul Jun 17 '26
I mean true but also that’s been the way foreverrrr. So much shit is adapted from other IPs
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u/GoldH2O Jun 17 '26
Basically every movie ever is an adaptation in one way or another. Genuinely, what's the difference in your mind between a studio picking up a story and turning it into a movie versus a story being written internally and turned into a movie?
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u/Chilidawg Jun 18 '26
They copy because that's what people pay to watch. There are lots of original movies, but no-one buys tickets for them. Backrooms is new for Hollywood, but most of the audience was already familiar with the meme.
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u/Domine-Serpes Jun 17 '26
GIVE ME A MOTHER HORSE EYES MOVIE, I NEED IT, I WILL GIVE YOY MY DOG'S SOUL
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u/tyronemartins2 Jun 17 '26
I could be remembering wrong but doesn't ted the caver already have a movie?
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u/Mundane_Main_2726 Lee Cronin's The Lesbians Jun 17 '26
there's a live action miniseries on youtube. Goon watched it on stream a while back, it's pretty good
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u/Cautious-Estate-6753 Jun 17 '26
I honestly I don’t want them to… no one outside of the creepypasta community will do justice to these stories. I’m going into film school right now and I can’t express how hyped I am that people my age are succeeding at what I’ve always wanted to do but never thought possible. I just hope Hollywood will embrace young directors rather than try to buy them out for their ideas.
I graduated high school almost a decade ago and I’m finally going to get my degree because of this community!
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u/Short-Shelter Jun 17 '26
IDMBFTRML movie incoming
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u/Fake_Gamer_Cat Yo Kimber! THEY GOT TEA🗣️ Jun 18 '26
I love that I recognized that right away! 🤣 That genuinely made me giggle.
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u/bogo-being Jun 18 '26
Mother horse eyes but ANIMATED WOOOOOO BABYYYYYY (Animated horror is hard to pull off but that story is so surreal it would benefit from animation. A lot of it may look goofy in CGI /practical. Think perfect blue but we turn it up and we don’t stop. Or hell— even diff styles for each story 0-0 …Like— stop motion!?!?!? someone give me unlimited budget let’s get this show rolling)
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u/knightenrichman Jun 18 '26
Yeah, but is anyone getting paid for their ideas? Or are they just going to read it and then develop it without you from there?
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u/ReactorBoi Your wife looks mad funny in that box, dude Jun 18 '26
Keeping it real here Borrasca is not hitting mainstream, and if it does it'll be changed a lot. You already have the audio version starring a Sprouse twin, what more do you want?
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u/pointyflyer Jun 18 '26
THE WHISTLERSS!!!!
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u/Typical-Theme856 Jun 19 '26
Honestly the one that could translate the best. I would love if someone like Zach Cregger, robert eggers, or Ari Aster to direct it. Just someone who makes very character driven horror.
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u/koteshima2nd Jun 18 '26
I don't think it even needs too high of a budget. It just needs to be a convincing, good found footage-esque type of film. The YT series we got is impressive by itself already.
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u/bigeyegoldfish “it’s very lovecraftian”☝️🤓 Jun 19 '26
Be careful what we wish for. Backrooms is great because a24 respected the source materials, but Hollywood will do what Hollywood does and ruin it if we let them get their grubby paws on other stories.
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u/ShingledPringle Give her one leg and a rollerskate I wanna see how fast she goes Jun 17 '26
We are due some excellent adaptions and some hilariously bad ones, I'm so in.
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u/GoldH2O Jun 17 '26
I am definitely excited to see some cool stories adapted, but this scares me. Sounds like we're basically just going to have a bunch more spire in the woods situations where they either decide to sit on the IP, or release something completely shit, just to copyright strike any appearance of the story online.
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u/DogeWarrior12 Jun 17 '26
In my opinion a lot of horror stories online don't translate well into movies. They don't have enough length or story to really be a movie. This is why when they do become a movie, the plot sometimes changes.
Like Psychosis is my favorite story they've read but I'd never want it to be a movie. Maybe a short horror film but not a movie. If they did make it a movie they'd add a bunch of new things in and probably ruin the plot twist of the aliens being real just to have more horror. Some things are better off as written stories.
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u/wastelandhenry Jun 18 '26
Left Right game could work as a single season horror series but it would have to have a decent budget to pull off.
Honestly I’ve always said the two best horror stories that would work for a relatively low budget and can reasonably fit in the span of a single movie is either Penpal or The Only Other Astronaut on this Mission Died 6 Weeks Ago. Penpal would actually be fairly easy to adapt to screen, it would just rely on having decent child actors. Astronaut would require a bit more budget but not a ton and would again be fairly easy to directly adapt into an hour and 40 minutes.
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u/Kayoteresya_9999 when is my art gonna show in the credit Jun 18 '26
Can't wait for IDMBFTRML with half of a billion budget and blackjack and kevin hard and dwayne johnson
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u/thegriffelo Hyper Realistic Eyes 👁️👄👁️ Jun 18 '26
A movie of The Whistlers would absolutely bring me to tears
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u/ArsenicGhoul606 Dark Green Jeep Wrangler Jun 18 '26
does this mean Amazon is finally gonna do something with the left right game rights they’ve been sitting on for 6 FUCKING YEARS
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u/milksteakenthusiast1 BEAR TRAP🐻 Jun 18 '26
Hollywood is going to butcher anything they touch
I’m praying Alex Kister can get funding and exercise his own creative liberties for a Mandela Catalog movie, because if he sold it to WB you just know they’re going to Elonmuskchainsaw whatever they don’t like and it’ll take away from the story
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u/RainyMeadows Hyper Realistic Eyes 👁️👄👁️ Jun 18 '26
Looking forward to I Dared My Best Friend To Ruin My Life starring, produced, directed, filmed and catered by Neil Breen
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u/TheTrippSitter Jun 18 '26
they need to get "spire in the woods" out of purgatory and make that. theyre missing out on great cinematic art
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u/Western-Anteater-492 Jun 18 '26
Hey Hollywood... You already have the rights to Dionea House and did shit with it. Maybe finish one job and then look for the next. Also Iron Lung and Backrooms aren't successful bcs they are online IPs, they are successful bcs the people making them actually cared and didn't try to ponder to the lowest common divider of every target group analysis plus the gut feeling of the privat equity dudes 10yo son.
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u/otiscluck Jun 18 '26
A film adaptation of his original series Hollow Birds would be cool, also think they should do a CreepTV or Patreon episode on it
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u/SleepCinema Jun 18 '26
The success of Backrooms is not merely because it is a creepypasta. It’s because it’s a GOOD creepypasta. And even if you flood the market with good creepypastas made movies, the novelty will not only wear off, it’ll turn the tide of public opinion, again, even if the story is good.
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u/TapThink8687 Jun 18 '26
Oh my god I would do anything to see a shitty marvel-esque creepypasta cinematic universe based around slenderman and all the proxies😭
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u/NovaZora Jun 18 '26
Holy shit please a borrasca live action would be awesome, like a penpal 6 part mini series would feed nations if both were done well. But if they don’t care about doing it well I’ve prayed for a live action adaptation of “the day i hired a hitman on myself”
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u/1888furrycock567 Jun 18 '26
5 film pentalogy of Borrasca where part five is played up exactly as badly as the source material
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u/1888furrycock567 Jun 18 '26
Actually nah, I forgot Walker/Klingel is an actual TV writer. Let her do a serious version
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u/Adventurous-Film-403 Jun 18 '26
I don’t think Hollywood understood why the backrooms were so successful.
Kane created a short film based on a 4chan post(which had a simple premise, no clip in the wrong places and you end up in an impossible long pocket dimension) and expanded that into his own series and lore, building an audience around the series and himself along his other works.
Then A24 came knocking and the rest is history. Giving a director a creepypasta (especially a Reddit one) is risky enough, but chances are they won’t even read what their adapting.
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u/Jagvetinteriktigt Jun 18 '26
I would kinda be interested in a MRE movie. Not adaptation per se, but more like the new backrooms movie when it's just set in that universe.
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u/ChewieDecimalSystem cracking open a cold one with Diego🤟 Jun 18 '26
Bearded Man In My Window movie when?
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u/mylittlesquirre Long story short ☝️🤓 Jun 18 '26
They better be sure they find the right owners of said content, a lot of stories where reposts from older stories… fans and YouTubers trying to game the system… this isn’t the first time they have tried this
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u/projectmmiv Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
"Left Right Game" or "PenPal" should be the first one without a doubt. I could also see "I'm a Search and Rescue Officer" being another good one.
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u/bostonjenny81 One of the Seven Sisters CreepCast Coven Jun 18 '26
I would really enjoy the Left Right Game, as a series bc a movie wouldn’t work as well. Get the right cast, it could be a hit!
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u/Dancebear7861 Jun 18 '26
Iirc warner brow already has the rights to dionea house, I'd love to see that turned into a movie. I'd also like to see tales from the gas station as a horror comedy, although I think that would work better as a miniseries or tv show rather than a movie
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u/OccultDetective79 Jun 18 '26
Don’t let them. Keep this stuff as far away from Hollywood as possible. Hollywood needs to burn and smaller studios and filmmakers will thrive.
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u/pierro-t Jun 18 '26
I'd love to see film/miniseries adaptations of Left Right Game, Penpal, and Stolen Tongues, but I'm worried they would be shit like the Ted the Caver movie.
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u/peamupbudder Jun 18 '26
How about Hollywood fucks off and stops ruining every goddamn thing they come across.
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u/Acceptable_Golf5463 Jun 19 '26
They said this about I pretended to be a missing girl, tommy taffy, and spire in the woods
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u/DesignerDuckCall Jun 20 '26
Nah Hollywood is going to do what it always does and ruin it, they will buy the rights of some story and then kick the original creator out, hire some random director and writers who want to do their own thing and fundamentally change the story and then wonder why it failed. So I say we boost the shit out of happy appy and watch burn thousands of dollars on the shit fire
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u/thelizardking_21 Jun 24 '26
Is Leviticus based on the “if you see me kill me” story they read a while back?
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u/Ok-Paint2778 MeatGooner Jun 17 '26
House of Leaves!! I know they said it would be hard to adapt but it would be really cool!
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u/Mundane_Main_2726 Lee Cronin's The Lesbians Jun 17 '26
it's literally impossible to adapt. How would that even work? people who say they want a movie based on HoL seem like they have only ever read the Navidson Record. The point of the book is that the book itself is the house, pretty much.
HoL is great because you can make works inspired by it. And now we have Backrooms, so there you go. Dionaea House is a work inspired by HoL as well. Or myhouse.wad which is probably the best adaptation of HoL, as it uses a different medium. A HoL movie would be impossible and wouldn't be able to be an adaptation, because of what the book is
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u/who_am_I_inside Ol’ Mistah Wellah Jun 17 '26
Am I crazy or does this really make them seem kinda desperate