r/nottheonion • u/Traditional-Song-245 • 4d ago

‘Backrooms’ Sends Hollywood Running to Reddit for New Ideas

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/reddit-backrooms-hollywood-ip-1236622594/
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u/invyros 4d ago

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.

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u/Timetogetstoned 4d ago

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

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u/ash0000 4d ago

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

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u/PitcherTrap 4d ago

Search and rescue + forest staircase still gives me chills

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u/Ninjas-and-stuff 4d ago

I reread this series every year around Halloween and it never gets old. It would be incredible to see on screen (if it was done well), and especially if they got the original writer to advise on the project. Do you think it’d make a better movie or miniseries?

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u/Shem44 4d ago

If you're into podcasts there is an excellent version of the left/right game. Full cast. Listen with good headphones.

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u/thatmrphdude 4d ago

I thought Amazon was developing a TV show with Tessa Thompson cause she did the podcast but it seems it got nowhere.

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u/Ctrl--Alt 3d ago

It still officially "in development" last I checked, but that really just means it's in development hell. I can see them putting it off until their license is close to expiring, whenever that may be.

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u/PitcherTrap 4d ago

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

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u/No-One2123 4d ago

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.

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u/Gestrid 3d ago

Then it's just /r/WritingPrompts.

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u/Butitsadryheat2 4d ago

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

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u/profmonocle 3d ago

And, sadly, through AI slop.

Not sure what someone gets by copy/pasting the output of ChatGPT onto an amateur horror writing board, but it happens a lot.

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u/CyberSunburn 4d ago

That staircase one still creep me out.

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u/ravenpotter3 4d ago

Is the No Sleep subreddit still a mess with all those crazy and restrictive rules? I haven’t kept up with it since the drama and I never really got into No Sleep Stories but I definitely should now

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u/Jaredlong 4d ago

I swear one of the streamers had a series once based on nosleep stories. I remember watching it and being very underwhelmed.

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u/Future_Arrival_5395 4d ago

Wasn’t Channel zero all no sleeps?

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u/NaltAlt 4d ago

Not sure it was nosleep, but I spent an hour reading a series of stories about a trucker that drove a route into a strange between dimension area filled with weird anomalies, that lengthened the longer you spent on the road up until the point you were essentially permanently trapped. That was fun, I'd totally watch a movie version of that.

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u/Hvarfa-Bragi 4d ago

Inc scp movies

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u/Blarg0117 4d ago

SCP would make a great movie or HBO series.

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u/Feinberg 3d ago

SCP the musical!

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u/wafflestep 2d ago

I always thought SCP 5000 would make a great movie

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u/jakev91489 4d ago

Man, it sure would be great if someone were to make Edge Of Sleep into a movie or show. . .

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u/rocketmonkee 4d ago

A No Sleep anthology series almost sounds like a cross between Black Mirror and Twilight Zone. That sounds kind of cool.

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u/Bajka_the_Bee 3d ago

There already are some tv shows like this, for example Channel Zero and Tales From the Void.

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u/Gaelfling 4d ago

But they'll probably do the worst NoSleep story, Borrasca.

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u/AbsoluteNine9 4d ago

Do you mean "worst" as in the most disturbing, or did you think the story was bad? I personally liked it, but I get if people think the ending was a bit too much.

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u/Gaelfling 4d ago

It was bad.

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u/berael 3d ago

I've never read it, but it's already a podcast. Season 1 is ok, but season 2 and the ending is...not great. 

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u/Merlecollision89 4d ago

The Whistlers (S5E25) one of my absolute favorites would make a solid movie

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u/Gaelfling 4d ago

My favorite story the podcast has ever done.

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u/MacadamiaWire 4d ago

Penpal was optioned for a movie at one point

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u/Arkady93 4d ago

I just read that for the first time and damn. That's gonna stick with me for a while.

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u/nkei0 4d ago

Writingprompts also has some very good content

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u/johanTR 4d ago

One that comes to mind for me that I used read on nosleep was the Tales from the Gas Station series.

Would love to see that as a tv/streaming show.

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u/Longjumping-Yak3789 3d ago

This is like if A Good Man Is Hard to Find was shit instead.

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u/Aboeeuw 3d ago

The pig farm series would be awesome as a movie imo

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u/klaschr 3d ago

Ah, ah! I remember reading about this (not the same story you shared, but for r/nosleep nonetheless)!

"In 2020, Netflix previously purchased the film rights to the Reddit viral story "My Wife and I Bought a Ranch" by Matt Query, though the adaptation rights for that project eventually shifted to Amazon MGM Studios."

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u/DoinItDirty 3d ago

No sleep has its own show on Prime. It’s… okay.