Hollywood is increasingly turning to the internet for story ideas, with one of the latest being A24's Backrooms from web series creator Kane Parsons. Now, studios are turning to the horror fiction site SCP Foundation and showing how dealing with that community can go right, and wrong.

On the "wrong" side, A24 recently ruffled feathers when it unveiled an SCP Foundation-based V/H/S film without contacting the SCP Wiki team or promising to release it under an open-source license as required. That prompted criticism from the community and a warning about licensing restrictions from SCP Wiki's admin team.

After that pushback, Parasite and Anora distributor Neon took a different approach. The studio also announced that it's developing an anthology film based on the SCP Foundation community's horror fiction. However, Neon did contact the SCP Wiki's admin team and pledged to release it under the Foundation's required Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. The movie is slated to arrive in theaters next year.

The film will platform emerging filmmakers and showcase the talents of SCPF's community of creators. It won't be an "official" SCP film, though, as none of the staff are involved in the production and there's no compensation involved. The SCP will not be endorsing the film either, as that would run afoul of its own rules.

"The staff of the SCP Foundation Wiki and our community appreciate Neon's excellent communication and commitment to following the requirements of our license as well as the spirit of collaboration at the core of the SCP Foundation project," the SCP Wiki admin team wrote in a statement. In a separate post, the admins laid out its issues with A24's proposed film and said it would "love to sit down with A24, Spooky Pictures, and other involved parties to discuss options for how they could make and distribute a film while complying with CC BY-SA."

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A24 made several serious missteps following the release of Backrooms, angering fans by filing copyright claims against other Backrooms creators, before withdrawing them after director Kane Parsons intervened. So, A24 and its partners at Image Nation Studios and Spooky Pictures have been eager to clarify that they are not asserting exclusive rights to the SCP universe. A24 declined to comment, but Monique Levine, a spokesperson for Image Nation and Spooky, told The Verge that “A24’s worldwide rights pertain to the specific film project being produced.”

The problem is, under the license used by the SCP Foundation, nobody can claim exclusive rights to any SCP material. Creative Commons’ CEO Anna Tumadóttir told The Verge that, “Anyone can use works available under Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license, even commercially,”

The staff and authors of the SCP Foundation Wiki (the real-life writing project behind the SCP Foundation universe and its official home) were not consulted or contacted regarding this film. We have been attempting to contact the filmmakers but haven't yet been successful. To be clear: we have not had any communication with the filmmakers, producers, or distributors for this project, despite our best efforts, and to the best of our knowledge they have not made any efforts to contact us. Furthermore, A24 does not and cannot have any exclusive rights to anything related to the SCP Foundation, including any films that Spooky Pictures or anyone else may choose to create. (...)

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Like I get we love a smooth blend of corny & awesome but jesus can writers come up with anything other than making people related to add drama please kill me

For thirteen years the V/H/S franchise has been rooting through the world’s cursed camcorders looking for the scariest thing on tape. It turns out the scariest thing was a filing cabinet the whole time.

The next installment is V/H/S: SCP, and it drops the found footage anthology into the SCP Foundation, the giant online horror project that has spent years pretending to be a leaked government archive. This is the rare crossover where you read the headline and immediately think, well, obviously. Two things built out of the same broken parts finally noticing each other.

Per Variety, V/H/S: SCP is coming from indie genre label Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios. It is the first feature length trip into SCP territory, and it is aiming for theaters in 2027.

Producing are Roy Lee and Steven Schneider out of Spooky Pictures, alongside Josh Goldbloom and Michael Schreiber. Goldbloom and Schreiber are not tourists here. Their fingerprints are already on recent entries like V/H/S/94 and V/H/S/Beyond, so the people assembling this actually know how the machine runs. (...)

Whoever or whatever they are the 0-5 are some of the most important and powerful individuals in the SCP universe. Personally my favorite is a 001 proposal that I feels shows the bitter truth of the members

Here’s the link to the Kickstarter

Fanmade project by Keter Labs

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SCP-388 | Ultimate Frisbee (SCP Orientation)

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