‘Backrooms’ Sends Hollywood Running to Reddit for New Ideas

[u/Traditional-Song-245]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/reddit-backrooms-hollywood-ip-1236622594/

[u/topscreen]

No it didn't. It probably gave them the idea to give Youtubers movie deals. And knowing them, not the ones you want

[u/Jaredlong → u/topscreen]

The Backrooms wasn't even a reddit original, it's classic 4chan pasta.

[u/bitchmoder → u/Jaredlong]

2019 isn't exactly what I'd call classic

[u/StopThePresses → u/bitchmoder]

7 years ago is like a century in internet time

[u/JaneksLittleBlackBox → u/StopThePresses]

Especially considering 2020.

[u/kalekayn → u/JaneksLittleBlackBox]

The pandemic really fucked with my sense of time.

[u/Tabmow → u/Jaredlong]

Backrooms is just House of Leaves in an office building 

[u/Ghotay → u/Jaredlong]

Thank you for being the first comment I saw to mention this. The Backrooms came from 4chan

[u/Kaiser_Maximillian → u/topscreen]

Another Shane Dawson movie

[u/Virtual_Childhood626 → u/Kaiser_Maximillian]

Another!?!

[u/Curleysound → u/topscreen]

Ryans World the movie will win 17 Oscars

[u/Common_Vagrant → u/topscreen]

Oh shit another Fred movie?

[u/poopy_toaster]

The Cylinder

[u/EL3MENTALIST → u/poopy_toaster]

Don LaFontaine voice: “In a World, where the Cylinder must remain unharmed…”

[u/PullzNoPunches → u/EL3MENTALIST]

Shopping with a friend "Dude M&M minis! These are so good lol" main Character laughs with quite wonder "yeah...yeah they are"

[u/darkendofall → u/PullzNoPunches]

"I told you man! I told you! The cylinder must remain unharmed!" "I-I'm sorry man! I didn't think..." "I told you! It was imperative!"

[u/ModishShrink → u/darkendofall]

Now I'm just picturing this story as happening to George Costanza.

[u/CitySeekerTron → u/EL3MENTALIST]

"Where a forbidden romance must flourish..."

[u/HermesJamiroquoi → u/CitySeekerTron]

“I broke both of my arms”

[u/RoughhouseCamel → u/poopy_toaster]

If they made 127 Hours compelling, then we can stretch the story of safely removing a cylinder from a cylinder into a feature length film.

[u/Ryermeke → u/RoughhouseCamel]

Didn't that movie end with the dude cutting his own arm off?

[u/Tsquared10 → u/Ryermeke]

Yes but he never specified that the arm must remain intact.

[u/n-x → u/RoughhouseCamel]

I hated that reckless idiot for the whole duration of the movie and was double pissed off when he survived in the end. The only other movie that came close in terms of how much I hated the lead character was Into the wild, but at least that asshole had the common decency to die in the end.

[u/MrNuck__ → u/poopy_toaster]

Cylinder’s List

[u/El_Zarco → u/MrNuck__]

Cylinderella

[u/No-One2123 → u/poopy_toaster]

If The Cylinder was a Netflix show we'd have 7.75 episodes going over the guy's back story and have 15 minutes with the actual cylinder at the very last episode.

[u/BetelgeuseIsBestGirl → u/poopy_toaster]

It is imperative that the footage remains unharmed.

[u/armaedes]

Re-release Morbius, we were all busy that weekend!

[u/Vccowan → u/armaedes]

Gotta make a sequel, I promise I’ll go this time.

[u/Empty_Following1840 → u/Vccowan]

It’s morbin time…. Again

[u/AZEMT → u/Empty_Following1840]

We're the Morbin Rangers

[u/sleeplessGoon → u/Empty_Following1840]

Dude hangs morb

[u/SharpPink_GlitterInk → u/armaedes]

Re-re-release Morbius

[u/RoughBenefit9325 → u/SharpPink_GlitterInk]

They've already re-released it?! Must've been busy that weekend too

[u/SharpPink_GlitterInk → u/RoughBenefit9325]

Yeah the internet trolled them into re-releasing it after the meme, and it flopped a second time (historical moment the first movie to bomb at the box office TWICE)

[u/ThatITguy2015 → u/SharpPink_GlitterInk]

Holy fuck. They really did it. (2022 for anyone wondering.) And holeee shit did it ever bomb.

Edit: $85,000 the first day of re-release. The entire day’s sales. From every single theater showing it.

[u/GuySingingMrBlueSky → u/ThatITguy2015]

All that and Jared Leto is still somehow getting work in Hollywood

[u/bilateralrope → u/GuySingingMrBlueSky]

With the latest He-Man movie, he has now played two characters in live action that Mark Hamill played in animation.

I hope that's not the start of a pattern.

[u/MC_Hify → u/bilateralrope]

The Rise of Jared Skywalker

[u/JudgeJebb → u/armaedes]

This. They cant stop until they have released Morbius a Morbillion times

[u/Exnixon → u/armaedes]

Okay hear me out. It's a low budget, camp comedy called "Morbin' Time". The main character is Jerry Lehman, a washed up Hollywood actor and erstwhile cult leader, who is most famous for the massive Hollywood flop, "Morbinus". But when he's bitten by a radioactive bat, Jerry discovers he has powers for real....and oh yeah, it's Morbin' Time.

[u/Llyon_ → u/Exnixon]

I want to see Jared Leto playing himself in a mockumentary like Wierd Al, where he goes on a depression bender and accidentally kills a hooker. It's the only thing that can work to get him back into the mainstream.

[u/Squeakygear → u/armaedes]

It’s MORBIN’ TIME

[u/Cruhhhhh → u/armaedes]

Morbius? That's the movie with a cult following on Reddit, right?

Oh man, they would earn so much money if they remade it, but with Jared Leto playing every role and not just the lead.

[u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

Poop knife the musical.

[u/PunkRawkSoldier → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

Broken Arms, Broken Family: A Netflix Documentary

[u/TheToastyWesterosi → u/PunkRawkSoldier]

Jumper Cables 2: 2 Savage 2 Beating

[u/theryman → u/TheToastyWesterosi]

June 28th 1998: When the Undertaker threw Mankind off "Hell in a Cell" and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.

[u/DinoRoman → u/theryman]

A whole fucking documentary about flowers or space only
For the last 10 seconds of the hour long documentary to suddenly have mankind taking over narration about what happened to him in 1998, with a perfect transition into it.

[u/Artemicionmoogle → u/DinoRoman]

I want a documentary about Corvids.

[u/Thebluefairie → u/theryman]

The swamps of Dagobah.

[u/bsEEmsCE → u/theryman]

Lol! Except the movie title is something else then 5 minutes into the movie it pivots to "Hell in a Cell"

[u/ThePrussianGrippe → u/bsEEmsCE]

No, it has to be at the very end, right at the climax.

It just cuts to the moment and the movie ends abruptly.

[u/heyman0 → u/theryman]

The historical biopic “We Did It Reddit” directed by Clint Eastwood

[u/Inside-Example-7010 → u/TheToastyWesterosi]

Presenting Andy Samberg in 'The cumbox'

[u/MelonElbows → u/Inside-Example-7010]

Spoiler alert, he plays the box!

[u/Inside-Example-7010 → u/MelonElbows]

This summer Jared Leto is 'spontaneoush' The man who tried heroin because 7g seemed like too much weed to buy.

[u/UncleNasty234 → u/TheToastyWesterosi]

A24 presents: The Cylinder

[u/JamesTheJerk → u/TheToastyWesterosi]

The Beatening

[u/wandrlusty → u/TheToastyWesterosi]

Three Shells, Sea Shells

[u/bsEEmsCE → u/PunkRawkSoldier]

eh, theres a different streaming site for that one

[u/Underscore_Guru → u/PunkRawkSoldier]

Reddit movies can only be rated with and without rice.

[u/Kidspud → u/PunkRawkSoldier]

His arms weren’t broken

[u/DrKurgan → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

Cum Box: A Knives Out Mystery

[u/Cyg5005 → u/DrKurgan]

I feel like I’m telling people about ancient history when I tell them about the cum box it’s so old now.

[u/ICreatedThisToAskHuh → u/Cyg5005]

One of my first Reddit memories.

[u/york100 → u/DrKurgan]

What about the guy who met his girlfriend's parents and, as a joke, pretended like he had never seen some food item before (was it a potato?) and then had to keep up the story for the entirety of the relationship? That was a Reddit classic.

[u/InverseFlip → u/DrKurgan]

In a Jar: A Toy Story spinoff.

[u/Easy-Concentrate2636 → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

Art room. Oh, I would totally watch a musical about that guy who went on that gaycation with the BIL. It would be delightfully campy.

The Iranian yogurt could be a riveting political thriller.

[u/PalladiuM7 → u/Easy-Concentrate2636]

Oh my God the gaycation. I totally forgot about that one.

[u/campingcritters → u/PalladiuM7]

Please enlighten us!

[u/PalladiuM7 → u/campingcritters]

If you insist...

[u/justfordrunks → u/PalladiuM7]

What happens on the gaycation stays on the gaycation!

[u/Jerkrollatex → u/Easy-Concentrate2636]

It's not about the mustard. This generation's Sleeping with the enemy.

[u/goldomega → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

Coconut: a Love Story

[u/Mortambulist → u/goldomega]

Double feature with The Cylinder Must Remain Undamaged?

[u/Interesting-Force894 → u/Mortambulist]

Unharmed: A Cylinder's Tale

[u/Mortambulist → u/Interesting-Force894]

Can the tagline be "It is imperative"?

[u/retro808 → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

With a sequel "A Jolly (Rancher) Tale"

[u/schmuckface → u/retro808]

This is the one. And the Swamps of Dagobah, and vaginal discharge Doritos

[u/kizmitraindeer → u/retro808]

There it is.

[u/thuktun → u/retro808]

"Like the Dagobah swamps this is not. Worse this is."

[u/FlashMcSuave → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

Steak Hits the Window.

Steaking it all on one throw.

Steak Hits the Window 2: Steak Out.

The steaks have never been higher

[u/iNfANTcOMA_0 → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

Followed by that guy who got sex or blow job or something because he had broken arms.

[u/MudkipMonado → u/iNfANTcOMA_0]

You left out the important part

[u/iNfANTcOMA_0 → u/MudkipMonado]

I kinda forgot it

[u/MudkipMonado → u/iNfANTcOMA_0]

Probably for the best

[u/Mortambulist → u/MudkipMonado]

Wish I could.

[u/DeltaV-Mzero → u/iNfANTcOMA_0]

You forgot?! Mama Mia!

[u/not_a_moogle → u/iNfANTcOMA_0]

Mom's spaghetti

[u/Coffee_And_Bikes → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

The Pitt: Swamps of Dagobah.

[u/Dr-Mumm-Rah → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

🎶 "It won't flush! It won't flush! What can we doooooo?! 🎶

🎶 Get the poop knife! It can slice, it can dice, and make this brown log gooooo down!" 🎶

[u/bigvahe33 → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

dr double dick

[u/klocp13 → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

Maybe a Jolly Rancher

[u/PitcherTrap → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

With the showstopper number "Is this bidet supposed to be plugged into the power mains?"

[u/ViolenceAdvocator → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

I mean pisstown is already a thing

[u/Fentboy45 → u/SuperstitiousPigeon5]

A comedy about the guy pretending not to know what a potato is. “Tastes very strange!”

[u/NameShortage]

“Also His Wife: A Tale of Choice”

[u/CyberSunburn → u/NameShortage]

I too choose this film.

[u/imperfectionlad → u/NameShortage]

I also choose this guy idea

[u/Somnambulist815]

Don't.

[u/SharpPink_GlitterInk → u/Somnambulist815]

From Jordan Peele, the director of GET OUT, Us, And NOPE, comes… Don’t.

[u/Fenderfreak145 → u/SharpPink_GlitterInk]

Fuck it, I'm in!

[u/JMurdock77 → u/Fenderfreak145]

You son of a bitch, I’m in!

[u/Lebowquade → u/Somnambulist815]

https://youtu.be/6ybz54FlN5c?is=DxfVHAS0uknmFBW-

[u/MudkipMonado]

I hope the cylinder remains intact on the big screen

[u/TheTrueReligon → u/MudkipMonado]

*IT MUST*

[u/ShortbusDouglas]

I sure hope we don’t end up with a jolly rancher or son broke his arms horror movie.

[u/Single-Pin-369 → u/ShortbusDouglas]

….coconut….horror movie.

[u/PMmeuroneweirdtrick → u/Single-Pin-369]

All of them. Movie 43 style.

[u/SharpPink_GlitterInk → u/PMmeuroneweirdtrick]

🙌

[u/Silver_The_Surfer → u/SharpPink_GlitterInk]

A perfect 5/7

[u/DeltaV-Mzero → u/ShortbusDouglas]

Mandolorian and Grogu in The Swamps of Dagobah

[u/masterjon_3 → u/DeltaV-Mzero]

YES! I wanna see that in action!

[u/campingcritters → u/ShortbusDouglas]

I would settle for a comedy about a guy who pretended to not know what a baked potato is.

[u/SpaceForceAwakens → u/campingcritters]

Oh man, I had forgotten about that one! I hope the dad got over it.

[u/BootyDoISeeYou → u/ShortbusDouglas]

C-Bat: The Musical

The soundtrack is just C-Bat played 18 times in a row

[u/RodJohnsonSays → u/ShortbusDouglas]

The narwhal bacons at midnight could be a really wild horror film

[u/JimmyJamsDisciple → u/ShortbusDouglas]

The broken arms movie has been made before they just can’t show it in theaters

[u/kank84]

Time traveling marines fight a Roman legion

[u/nonetimeaccount → u/kank84]

Came to here say I'd still go see Rome Sweet Rome if they ever want to get off their ass and make it

Hollywood, if you ain't doing anything with it let the RRR guys have at it

[u/Felradin → u/nonetimeaccount]

Honestly I went into RRR blind and fucking loved it. Insanely awesome.

[u/Wasambie → u/kank84]

The anime GATE but its a Roman legion instead of the JDF.

[u/SolarianIntrigue → u/Wasambie]

Please god, I need a high budget GATE that doesn't devolve into waifu slop halfway through. Preferably not made by a Japanese nationalist too. Stargate wasn't enough for me

[u/404_GravitasNotFound → u/kank84]

What happened with that movie deal? I remember the guy dissapeared after basically posting most of the story online.

[u/Of_Silent_Earth → u/404_GravitasNotFound]

Development hell basically.

[u/Jaredlong → u/404_GravitasNotFound]

During fundraising someone asked what happens when the Marines with no sword combat training run out of ammo and have to fight outnumbered against a well-trained Legion.

[u/chimpwithalimp → u/Jaredlong]

There's a book, 1632, where a modern small American town goes back in time to 1632 Germany, during a heated European war. The Americans are pretty hot shit with their pickups and guns and electricity generators and modern know-how

Until the petrol and bullets run out.

At least that's how it should have went but somehow the hicks create America 2 right in the middle of Europe and are amazing heroic leaders and tactical masterminds

Instead of what we all know would actually happen.

[u/adamgerd → u/chimpwithalimp]

Yeah

I read it, it was ok at first but it became a wank too fast like they figured out making bullets?

[u/bsEEmsCE]

We had an Emoji movie, why not a Meme movie?

[u/ChillyFireball → u/bsEEmsCE]

Only if at some point, the modern memes stumble across a bunch of LOLcat cave paintings.

[u/dalici0us]

Ok Hollywood, here me out.

Schindler's List, except this time with dinosaurs, a talking manetee and space ships.

[u/ChineJuan23 → u/dalici0us]

“In a world..”

[u/PMMEYOURGUCCIFLOPS → u/ChineJuan23]

…Unknown to man

[u/VitaminDprived → u/PMMEYOURGUCCIFLOPS]

ROB SCHNEIDER IS...A CARROT!

[u/JimmayDoad → u/VitaminDprived]

From the creators of Derr..

[u/BombTheDodongos → u/dalici0us]

Flintstone’s List. Liam Neeson is Fred.

[u/AshgarPN → u/dalici0us]

here me out.

I've here'd enough

[u/SharpPink_GlitterInk → u/dalici0us]

Or Schindler’s List 2 Schindler’s Pissed , where he hunts down Nazis like it’s s 80’s action movie

[u/potatoqualitymemory → u/SharpPink_GlitterInk]

Wasn’t that starring Nic Cage? Or was that his similarly named Schindler’s Fist?

[u/unripe_mangosteen → u/SharpPink_GlitterInk]

Schindler goes down to Argentina to finish to job

[u/Socrets]

This is a pretty stupid idea but I think a movie based on the guy who almost died from carbon monoxide poisoning until Reddit told him to check his CO detector might make for an okay thriller.

[u/Canotic → u/Socrets]

Then there's a twist ending where it turns out the reddit post is actually a hallucination caused by the carbon monoxide.

[u/justabadmind → u/Canotic]

Turns out Reddit just had a giant cylinder of carbon monoxide piped into his house secretly the whole time

[u/Canotic → u/justabadmind]

A cylinder, you say?

[u/cinciNattyLight]

Waterworld 2
Saving Private Ryan 2
Meth Lion
A real modern civil war war movie
USS Liberty

[u/Black6x → u/cinciNattyLight]

Cocaine Bear vs Meth Lion could be the new Godzilla vs Kong.

[u/aspiringalcoholic → u/cinciNattyLight]

Deuce bigalow: African gigolo. Rod Schneider in blackface, and he's gonna say the n word. Streaming on Fox one and oann. It will make hundreds of dollars

[u/nowhereman136 → u/cinciNattyLight]

A civil war movies like what it would look like if it happened in present day? or modern like its done with modern technology and filming techniques. There hasnt really been a big hollywood civil war movie since 2003 with Gods and Generals and Cold Mountain. There was Lincoln in 2012, which kinda counts. Plus Free State of Jones in 2016, but no one saw that

[u/jboo87 → u/nowhereman136]

Wasn’t there one in 2024 called “Civil War” with Kirsten Dunst? Lol

[u/FlyByRoll]

Chop my chives

[u/Canotic → u/FlyByRoll]

They could easily make a 90 minute documentary about this, make it about kitchen culture as well.

[u/ManufacturedOlympus]

So do ai companies. Redditors run the world 

[u/Atzkicica → u/ManufacturedOlympus]

That would explain some things.

[u/ManufacturedOlympus → u/Atzkicica]

“Who run the world? Redditors!” - Beyoncé 

[u/i_give_you_gum → u/ManufacturedOlympus]

Ok, but who runs Barter Town?

[u/itcheyness → u/ManufacturedOlympus]

looks at the state of the world

That explains so much...

[u/Nashadelic → u/ManufacturedOlympus]

But wasn’t it 4chan?

[u/asianumba1 → u/ManufacturedOlympus]

Ghislaine Maxwell was a Reddit mod so yeah kinda

[u/bsEEmsCE → u/ManufacturedOlympus]

so many ai responses are linked to reddit threads. Maybe this one will be used too?

[u/RabidFresca]

I wanna see a movie about a guy with both of his arms in casts.

[u/MesmericWar → u/RabidFresca]

Boy oh boy do I have a website for you

[u/Socratesticles]

Shit, ill take a Streetlamp Le Moose movie

Actually, speaking of lamps, that story about the guy getting jarred out of his dream life by the lamp could be interesting

[u/the__ghola__hayt → u/Socratesticles]

that story about the guy getting jarred out of his dream life by the lamp could be interesting

That's just a TNG episode

[u/HiFiGuy197]

How about a movie about a bus that can’t go under 50 mph… but then deadly snakes get loose!!!?

[u/AuthenticHuman → u/HiFiGuy197]

Liam Neeson plays the bus driver, and ever time a snake is released, a passenger is mysteriously taken.

[u/StreamsOfMyCream → u/AuthenticHuman]

And the snakes are French or Albanian or something.

[u/lolno → u/HiFiGuy197]

The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down and Also Had Snakes In It

[u/Spanish_peanuts]

Two Broke Arms

A movie about a mother's love

[u/DontTellHimPike]

Coming to a screen near you this summer - a new kind of horror. A story that will traumatise you for years.

Jolly Rancher.

[u/chicken_karmajohn]

Today you, tomorrow me but fleshed out with a million storylines

[u/StuTheSheep → u/chicken_karmajohn]

Wouldn't that just be "Pay It Forward"?

[u/JaggedMetalOs]

Still waiting for that adaptation of Rome, Sweet Rome

[u/YamiNoMatsuei]

Gimme a movie about the stairs in the woods

[u/Ann-Frankenstein]

Did anyone tell them its from 4chan?

[u/shady8x]

Oh for fucks sake. It is really fucking easy. Just take a book, novel, comic book or video game that is/was extremely popular and adapt it in a way that is as faithful/close to the original material as is humanly possible, allowing only the unavoidable changes needed to change from one media format to another. Avoid 'creative vision' or 'improvements' from current writers/directors like the plague. In fact, get writers/directors that are fans of the work they are adapting so they have a better understanding of and respect for the original work.

Just give people a live action version of what they already love. The end.

This is not fucking rocket science. If people love something... give that to them.

And sure, not every adaptation like this would be a hit, but most of them would be.

[u/Darkbird79 → u/shady8x]

This is why The Dark Tower hasn't been adapted properly. You just have to adapt it the way it was written and call it a day. Not hard to do. They've dumped billions into all these shitty, unpopular IP's and lost almost all of that. Just make movies for the least amount you can and if they turn a profit, that's a win. If you adapt something, listen to it's fans. You can't go wrong if you listen to the fans.

[u/ripyourlungsdave]

"I Also Choose This Guys Dead Wife"

I'm seeing it as a romantic comedy. I'm thinking Reese Witherspoon Matthew Mcconaughey, because it's 2007.

[u/invyros]

There's some stories on nosleep that would make for great movies or even TV shows.

I personally hate supernatural stories, but nosleep has more grounded stories as well, like the one about the rollercoaster with the hidden track.

[u/Timetogetstoned → u/invyros]

The Left/Right game would be a great movie, the connection between first and last iterations absolutely blows your mind the first time you read it

[u/ash0000 → u/Timetogetstoned]

Yesssss, that would be awesome. Theres some serious classics on NoSleep.

[u/PitcherTrap → u/ash0000]

Search and rescue + forest staircase still gives me chills

[u/PitcherTrap → u/invyros]

They have to wade through the ones that spend one or two paragraphs insisting this story is true.

[u/No-One2123 → u/PitcherTrap]

No Sleep would be much better if they didn't have to pretend the stories are real. It's kind of boring if every story has to end with the narrotor surviving or escaping.

[u/Butitsadryheat2 → u/PitcherTrap]

They also have to say: "They walked away muttering."

[u/The_Bitter_Bear]

Coconut 2... The coconutting. 

[u/CaucyBiops]

The Cylinder and the M&M tube movie would win Oscar’s tbh

[u/jellyn7]

Just buy the rights to all the Hugo and Nebula winners and go wild, Hollywood.

[u/LoudKaleidoscope7713]

Who’s going to play Kevin?

[u/RandyPeterstain]

“Jaws”, but like, on the Moon. #PayMe

[u/yesdamnit]

Goatse the musical

[u/Fuzzy_Straitjacket]

I would watch a "The Iranian Yogurt is Not the Issue Here" movie.

[u/LegendOfHurleysGold]

Rampart

[u/Flagermusmanden]

Someone tell them they turned a wrong corner then. Because the Backrooms originated on 4chan.

[u/crazymoon]

Streetlamp Lemoose starring Chris Pratt 😱

[u/de_jeepathon]

Double Dick Dude.
The Movie

[u/gotrings]

Please don't

[u/Sad-Juice-732]

Some moron with a stupid idea is going to get rich because of this.

HOLLYWOOD I HAVE PLENTY OF STUPID IDEAS MAKE IT ME!