A24 makes official adaptation to Creepypasta 'The Backrooms'; Renate Reinsve and Chiwetel Ejiofor will star

The scary shortages of YouTube, The Backroomswhich became a Creepypasta phenomenon of the Internet, accumulating almost 200 million visualizations since its debut on YouTube in early 2022, has Obtained Green Light to become a feature film produced by the independent film company, A24.

The novelties make officials originally emerged in February 2023, which talked about cinematographic adaptation (Vía Deadline).

The creator of Creepypasta, Kane Parsonsis aboard the project as director. With just 19 years, will become the youngest director of an A24 project When the feature film Start your production during summer.

Chiwetel Ejiofor (The Life of Chuck, 12 Years a Slave) y Renate Reinsve (Presumed Innocent, The Worst Person in the World) They were confirmed as the protagonists.

The script was written by Robert Patino (Zero Day, DMZ, Sons of Anarchy).

James Wan y Shawn Levy They are the producers with their respective companies, Atomic Monster and 21 Laps Entertainment, along with Patino, Dan Cohen and Dan Levine. Executive producers are Judson Scott, Alayna Glasthal, and Chris White.

The project is a co -production of A24 and Chernin Entertainment. Both are the co -financiers.

About the phenomenon THE BACKROOMS

The original video of Backrooms It is a short -footage format set in 1996, in which An unknown cameraman explores mysteriously illuminated rooms and corridors for 9 minutes, while the suspense grows and grows, and something unnatural can be glimpsed.

You find the video at the end of the note.

Parsons has expanded the mythology of his short with several videos published on his YouTube channel, Kane Pixels. Each has accumulated millions of visits.

The Backrooms It started as a Creepypasta from the Internet in 2019, Based on the idea of ​​disappearing accidental and gradually from reality in an empty room network, but you are not alonewith a sinister and nameless threat that is also in the maze with you.

No details of the plot on the film have not been announced, but it seems safe to assume that the feature film will be another film horror film found (Found Fotage), which with the support of A24 and Wan, we can be sure that the final product will be really creepy and, with Parsons as director, it will surely be faithful to the original.