Backrooms director Kane Parsons, fresh off his horror sensation storming the box office, is seemingly considering a Portal movie in his future.
This all stemmed from an interview on The Town, wherein Parsons noted how he wasn't interested in taking on IP next "barring one or two things" from his childhood – and early talks are happening.
Speculation soon intensified that Parsons may have been talking about Portal, the legendary puzzler franchise from Valve, Kim Swift, and Erik Wolpaw that sees players navigate increasingly nefarious test courses using portals.
Soon, The New York Times reporter Kyle Buchanan chimed in with his own scoop: "I’ve seen people speculate that Kane Parsons is referring to a potential Portal movie here," Buchanan began on Twitter. "I asked him in early May if he’d be interested in directing that and he said he was already looking into it 'with a lot of caution and a lot of curiosity.'"
Whatever comes next there is, understandably, considerable buzz around 20-year-old Parsons, who became the youngest filmmaker to ever reach number one at the U.S. box office with Backrooms.
Backrooms, which navigates the unique horror of liminal spaces bolstered by a cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, has already grossed almost $150 million at the box office from a reported $10 million budget.
Portal, meanwhile, has largely laid dormant as a franchise since its 2011 sequel, save for guest appearances or Easter eggs in other titles such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Minecraft. But maybe we'll be thinking with portals once more?
For more, check out the upcoming horror movies heading your way. Then dive into the new PS5 games on the horizon before the packed Summer Games Fest schedule invariably adds dozens more.
