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‘Backrooms’ Sends Hollywood Running to Reddit for New Ideas
TheImpressiveXhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/reddit-backrooms-hollywood-ip-1236622594/
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Krafty KactusWe’re about to see a new flood of Hollywood slop as they yet again fail to realize what actually makes good indie films good
Reddit, you say… 
After the success of the Barbie movie, studios were allegedly scrambling to figure out what other toys they could make a movie about. They just don’t get it.
There is a movie being made about Monopoly of all things.
I think I read there are two concurrent Monopoly movies in the works. Here: https://deadline.com/2026/06/monopoly-movie-lionsgate-developing-two-new-takes-1236954940/
Mostly_GristleMining Reddit for movie ideas… I guess we can all look forward to a high-budget adaptation of Swamps of Dagobah.
Ooh do poop knife next!
SemperverusBroken arms adventures
mwproductionsPatrick H Wiilems had an interesting video essay recently about the death of music videos, since there was a major pipeline from being a music video director to being a movie director.
This may be the first year where Hollywood starts treating YouTube video makers as a substitute pipeline for finding new talent.
TheOrcWhoWritesI think it’s safe to say, they will never learn or unlock anything of value.
BananaOnionJuiceThey have thousands of scripts to choose from and they go for Reddit they can as well just skip the middleman and ask a LLM directly.
Claude, give me a Hollywood movie script that wins at least 3 oscars.
AllNewTypeFaceThe original Onion story was about the success of American Pie kicking off a wave of copycat pie-fucking grossout comedies from the other studios.
OpenStarsMaybe try letting filmmakers rather than C-suite make the films?
Art is a financial risk. Wide and shallow appeal sells tickets
Only true for so long, and nowadays people can barely afford gas and food and rent so just watch Tiktok rather than pay to see films.
Which will turn into llm models giving them ideas, as reddit is ruled by bots and slop and will only get worse as they kick off real users that actually drive engagement for organized interests pushing a campaign.
moondoggieSomehow, the CMO of Reddit seems like an even worse person than I had imagined. I can honestly say he has an extremely punchable face just from reading his quotes.
I want a 3 hour epic about the poop knife.
If it ends the marvel movies and sequel bullshit, I call it a victory.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Can we not wait for Blair witch 3.0 for another shakeup this time?
The Cylinder: A Motion Picture
If that means more originals and less lazy remakes, I’m all for it!
Threes studios control like 75% of the movies now after the paramount deal closes, sony controls another like 7% or something.
It’s going to get worse not better, and using reddit for ideas is basically using llm’s and organized inerests, be they commercial or fascist or what have you, to generate ideas.
Let’s just input it into the AI Slop machine a few times first. Then strip out anything that might hurt us or some share holders reputation or feelings. Shove some ad’s and got to go for some good ol patriotism. Don’t forget to photoshop the current thing of the month “We” are caring about into it.
Zos_KiaIf some weirdo manages to make an adaptation of Mother Horse Eyes I’ll be the happiest man on earth
CaketacoDid you guys hear that the director is only 20 years old?
finallymadeanaccount“I’m sick of this motherfucking /r/Art Mod on this motherfucking subreddit!”
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Hollywood will do anything to avoid actually paying writers to come up with original ideas.
AI didn’t work, time to scrape reddit manually for royalty free ideas.
Which will probably also be AI generated content
Heh.
God forbid they take a risk on a story they like that isn’t already a best seller
Well, that’s the thing. It’s not like writers don’t have original ideas; i’m certain they have plenty of them. It’s just that the producers are too terrified to take a risk on an original idea (that they have to pay for).
But, apparently, they’re not too afraid to steal original ideas from the Internet. Fucking chickenshit motherfuckers…
Of course, it’s all about the fucking money
Writers in general have original ideas, but Hollywood filters them out. Hollywood selects for boot-licking and ass-kissing. Anyone with thoughts of their own washes out early.
It also doesn’t help that >90% of content is crap, no matter the medium. It’s a risky investment.
That being said, the way to handle those odds is to make a lot of smaller bets and listen to feedback. Once you average everything out, you can get good returns on investment
It’s the most psychotic method to finding movies. Now that the backrooms has worked, Hollywood execs can put it in their pitch deck for the next reddit inspired movie.
It’s the same reason why we’ve only got superhero movies for two decades, even beyond Marvel. You can only make new IPs if the reason for producing the IP is that it’s similar enough to an existing one. Which kind of kills the whole idea of fresh ideas.
Greentext short film compilation incoming
SCP movie incoming.
I think that’s impossible to monetize due to the licensing rights or something of the SCP wiki
See things like Control that are blatantly SCP inspired but don’t use the name
And “There is no anti-memetics division”, which is just a sanitized version of qntm’s original story on the wiki.
True, but that can be worked out as well.
What is SCP?
It’s a collaborative writing project that, just like the backrooms, originated in 4chan. It’s a wiki about a fictional secret government organization (The SCP foundation) that contains anomalies to protect normalcy.
It has become huge over the years. Definitely check it out if you enjoy scifi and/or (Lovecraftian)horror.
Good luck finding anything new of value in the endless ocean of fake LLM engagement, industrial scale astroturfing and outrage farming. I can see Influencer Reacts To Made Up Stories From r/amITheAsshole: The Movie as the best possible outcome.
Suicide - coming soon
What about AI? Wasn’t it the FUTURE of cinema??? Come on! I want more generated garbage on my screens!
Do not go for creative ideas from humans, ugh. Double down on the bet, create 5 different AIs that discuss a new idea among themselves!!
/r/writingprompts: The Movie
Dear hollywood please please please go to /r/badmovieideas
To be completely honest I’ve seen some not terrible ideas in some comment threads on Reddit over the years.
Some of those couldn’t be worse than some of the crap Hollywood has been producing.
I don’t believe there’s a shortage of new ideas in the industry, writers are creative. Producers however are the actual problem: they’re the ones refusing to pony up the money to make anything other that dross.
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Home Alone remake but Kevin is still Mcauley Caulkin as an adult and nobody seems to notice he’s a grown man.
Just remake the first movie with as much of the original cast as you can.
The princess would be Ms piggy and Kermit would be the dread pirate Roberts/Westly
You are absolutely right! I just thought as-you-wish/an-ni-mal/i-love-you would be a funny gag.
Sweetums is the giant for sure.
Is Rizzo right for Vizini, or should he be human?
And for Inigo, Gonzo? He’s got the arms for fun rapier work; I think we saw some is treasure island. Inigo Gonzales?
The six fingered man is probably a token human.
The prince could be human too, or maybe Fozzy.
Miracle max… Pepe the prawn? There is probably a better fit out there.
OMG! Bunsen and Beaker working on the life sucking machine!
But How do you safely puppet Sweetums in a holocaust cloak, in a wheelbarrow, on fire… 🤔 There will be no survivors…
Honestly, if they had a real person who could pass as Andre the Giant he should be the token human in the cast
I just talked about that a couple days ago
There’s still hope for a Darth Binks movie yet!
Still waiting on Rome, Sweet Rome.
This sounds like a live-action version of “GATE: and so the JWST Fought”
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Eww, gross. Run to the artists, not a platform, instead.
If they can find a way to credit the person behind the account, I’ve read some good stories and comments on reddit. Why would they not be artists? Because of the media they communicated through?
There’s plenty on r/HFY that’s good. Would love to see something like Chrysalis as a film
FYI, it’s a Reddit link. Sorry, but it’s a good story
Crazy. If they can drum that up from reddit, I can certainly try to revive my energy to contribute a modicum to the communities I started here.
Tbh I didn’t think the movie was that good. I wanted more exploring and a slow drip of horror. Instead they skipped all the parts I would have been interested in. Like Clark exploring and discovering everything instead they just info dumped it all in the kitchen table scene.