Chiwetel Ejiofor and Cristin Milioti are in talks to star in The Backrooms, A24‘s sci-fi horror flick primarily based on the viral collection of found-footage movies from Kane Parsons, Deadline can affirm.
Reps for the studio declined to remark. No phrase on the roles to be performed by the duo, and their offers might not make in the long run, because it’s nonetheless early days right here. We had been first to report on the undertaking again in 2023, and whereas its plot stays a thriller, the ’90s-set unique quick watches as a younger filmmaker’s fall into one other dimension leaves him wandering via an unsettlingly yellow, empty and labyrinthine workplace house, which can or is probably not residence to otherworldly beings. The movie’s title and setting draw inspiration from the imagery of a creepypasta (or web city legend) printed to the web site 4chan in 2019.
A prodigy of a filmmaker and VFX artist barely out of highschool, Parsons shot his YouTube following into the stratosphere with the viral success of his mysterious quick, “The Backrooms (Discovered Footage).” It’s the primary in a collection of found-footage horror movies which have garnered many, many tens of millions of views on-line and can now be tailored for the large display by A24, Atomic Monster, Chernin Leisure and 21 Laps.
Parsons will direct from a script by Roberto Patino. Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen and Dan Levine will produce for 21 Laps, together with James Wan and Michael Clear for Atomic Monster, and Patino. Alayna Glasthal is overseeing for Atomic Monster, with Judson Scott exec producing for the corporate alongside White.
Most lately seen starring in Bridget Jones: Mad In regards to the Boy, Ejiofor is a part of the solid of Mike Flanagan’s The Lifetime of Chuck, which Neon releases in June, in addition to Scarlett Johansson’s Cannes-premiering debut characteristic Eleanor the Nice. Upcoming, he’ll even be seen in The Outdated Guard 2 at Netflix and Youngsters of Blood and Bone from Paramount.
Coming off of rave opinions for her work in The Penguin and one other stand-out Black Mirror flip in USS Calister: Into Infinity, Miloti most lately boarded the FX pilot Seven Sisters.
The InSneider’s Jeff Sneider was first to the information on the actors in talks for The Backrooms.
