{"id":315508,"date":"2026-02-24T23:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/315508\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:06:07","slug":"kane-parsons-a24-movie-adapts-youtube-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/315508\/","title":{"rendered":"Kane Parsons’ A24 Movie Adapts YouTube Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBackrooms<\/a> revealed its spooky first footage for the horror feature that adapts Kane Parsons\u2019 YouTube<\/a> series. <\/p>\n

\n\tA24<\/a> releases director Parsons\u2019 film theatrically May 29. The project stars Chiwetel Ejiofor<\/a>, Renate Reinsve<\/a>, Mark Duplass<\/a>, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell and Avan Jogia<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tBackrooms centers on two people who find a mysterious door in the basement of a furniture showroom. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI found something,\u201d Ejiofor says in voiceover during the teaser trailer<\/a>. \u201cI found a place. It\u2019s massive in there and just goes on and on and on. All these rooms \u2014 this place builds them. Actually, more like it remembers them, and the more times it remembers something, the less it does.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tParsons helmed the movie from a script by Will Soodik. A24 and The North Road Company\u2019s\u00a0Chernin Entertainment\u00a0co-financed the movie and serve as co-studios for the film that counts 21 Laps Entertainment<\/a> and Atomic Monster<\/a> as producers.<\/p>\n

\n\tKori Adelson, Dan Cohen, Chris Ferguson, Dan Levine, Shawn Levy<\/a> and James Wan<\/a> serve as producers. <\/p>\n

\n\tBackrooms is inspired by Parsons\u2019 viral YouTube horror series that has amassed more than 190 million views.\u00a0The 20-year-old Parsons becomes the youngest filmmaker in A24\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe movie\u2019s release follows the recent success of Iron Lung, an indie horror film that filmmaker and YouTube content creator Markiplier self-distributed theatrically earlier this year, with the video game adaptation having surpassed $43 million at the global box office. During a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Markiplier explained that numerous studios and distributors had rejected his project. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere still is a stigma against YouTube,\u201d Markiplier said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like I\u2019m going to topple the mountain by myself. It has to be toppled and then toppled again, until it becomes normalized. Once it becomes normalized, then it can become boring, and it\u2019s like, \u2018Of course a YouTuber can do this,\u2019 and there\u2019s nothing to question about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Backrooms revealed its spooky first footage for the horror feature that adapts Kane Parsons\u2019 YouTube series. A24 releases…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[147303,15608,107944,147304,100879,93,61,60,21918,80946,270,2982,59097,10536,4621],"class_list":{"0":"post-315508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-21-laps-entertainment","9":"tag-a24","10":"tag-atomic-monster","11":"tag-avan-jogia","12":"tag-chiwetel-ejiofor","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-james-wan","17":"tag-mark-duplass","18":"tag-movies","19":"tag-renate-reinsve","20":"tag-shawn-levy","21":"tag-trailer","22":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}