{"id":48973,"date":"2025-08-06T22:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/48973\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T22:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:57:06","slug":"exit-8-neon-picks-up-tohos-movie-adaptation-of-liminal-walking-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/48973\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Exit 8&#8217; &#8211; NEON Picks Up Toho&#8217;s Movie Adaptation of Liminal Walking Simulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOTAKE CREATE\u2019s video game Exit 8 is getting a film adaptation from Toho and director Genki Kawamura, and we\u2019ve learned that NEON has picked up the film for release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing its World Premiere at Cannes, Exit 8 will have its North American Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival,\u201d NEON announced. \u201cComing soon to theaters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Exit 8 is expected in theaters from NEON sometime in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The walking simulator traps players in an infinite underground loop in a sterile subway passageway, mining psychological scares from liminal spaces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the cryptic synopsis: \u201cYou are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach The Exit 8. Don\u2019t overlook any anomalies. If you find anomalies, turn back immediately. If you don\u2019t find anomalies, do not turn back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Genki Kawamura\u00a0(Monster,\u00a0Suzume) writes, produces, and directs\u00a0Exit 8. Kazunari Ninomiya, Yamato Kochi, Naru Asanuma, Kotone Hanase, and Nana Komatsu will star.<\/p>\n<p>The original video game The Exit 8 is available now for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC via <a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2653790\/The_Exit_8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Steam<\/a>. The hit video game has been downloaded over 1.4 million times.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KOTAKE CREATE\u2019s video game Exit 8 is getting a film adaptation from Toho and director Genki Kawamura, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,27238,2839,9077,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-48973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-exit-8","tag-movies","tag-neon","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}