Backrooms Director Kane Parsons Wants to Make a Portal Movie

Kane Parsons, the young manager of Backrooms, has expressed involvement successful directing a Portal film. In a caller interrogation with The New York Times, Parsons noted that a Portal adaptation is simply a imagination project. This isn't due to the fact that Parsons has an involvement successful becoming an IP merchant, rather the opposite. When speaking connected The Town podcast, Parsons outright said helium was uninterested successful doing a Star Wars movie and that the lone IPs that were charismatic to him were a prime fewer from his puerility successful the 2000s. He neglected to sanction them due to the fact that he's actively exploring those arsenic options, but it led immoderate to judge helium whitethorn beryllium looking into adapting Portal.

Parsons grew up with Valve titles similar Half-Life and Portal, adjacent going arsenic acold arsenic making a Portal abbreviated movie connected his YouTube transmission agelong earlier he'd ever marque the Backrooms series. The franchise besides shares immoderate similarities with large, vapid rooms that person an eerie prime to them. Some person drawn connections betwixt the liminal abstraction fearfulness of thing similar Backrooms to the unnerving quality of Aperture Science's sterile trial chambers and much specifically, the corridors and caverns tucked down immoderate of these chambers successful Portal 2.

There person been attempts to accommodate Portal successful the past. Director JJ Abrams was erstwhile attached to bring some Half-Life and Portal to the large surface done his accumulation company, Bad Robot. However, that announcement was made successful 2013 and it doesn't look similar determination has been overmuch question since. Abrams noted to IGN successful 2021 that Portal was inactive successful improvement astatine Warner Bros., but erstwhile again, it has been precise quiet.

It's unclear what the clasp up has been, but with determination being a large roar successful gaming adaptations, it seems lone logical that idiosyncratic retired determination would privation to bring Portal to life. Parsons whitethorn beryllium the feline for the job, but we'll person to hold and spot if Valve agrees with his vision. It's imaginable that Bad Robot and WB whitethorn besides beryllium sitting connected the rights, which could make different complications. However, aft seeing however palmy Backrooms has been, it would beryllium silly to not get Parsons lined up for his imagination project.

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