Chiwetel Ejiofor & Cristin Milioti Eyed To Star In ‘The Backrooms’ At A24

Chiwetel Ejiofor & Cristin Milioti Eyed To Star In ‘The Backrooms’ At A24

A24's 'The Backrooms' has Chiwetel Ejiofor and Cristin Milioti in talks to star, Deadline can confirm.

The Backrooms: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cristin Milioti in talks to star in horror film based on viral videos

Two years ago, it was announced that some of today’s biggest genre companies – A24, James Wan‘s Atomic Monster, the Stranger Things makers at 21 Laps, and Planet of the Apes producers Chernin Entertainment – are joining forces on a new project called The Backrooms, which will mark the feature directorial debut of director and VFX artist Kane Parsons, who was only 17 years old at the time of the announcement. Now, Jeff Sneider of The InSneider ha…

Ejiofor, Milioti Circling A24's "The Backrooms"

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Cristin Milioti are in talks to star in the online-inspired horror flick “The Backrooms” at A24, Chernin Entertainment, James Wan’s Atomic Monster and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps. Kane Parsons created the original “The Backrooms (Found Footage)” viral video which originated in 2019 on a 4chan thread about unsettling images. The urban legend and ‘creepypasta’ short film is set in the 1990s and sees a young filmmaker fall into anothe…

Marvel and DC stars in talks to lead A24 movie adaptation of viral creepypasta horror The Backrooms

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Cristin Milioti are in talks to lead the film

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cristin Milioti in Talks to Star in A24’s ‘The Backrooms’

Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave, Venom: The Last Dance) and Cristin Milioti (“The Penguin,” “How I Met Your Mother”) are in talks to star in A24’s The Backrooms, Deadline reports. The sci-fi horror is based on the viral found footage videos from teenage filmmaker Kane Parsons, who will make his feature directorial debut from a script by Roberto Patino (“Westworld,” “Sons of Anarchy”). While the feature plot remains under wraps, the original s…

THE BACKROOMS: Cristin Milioti And Chiwetel Ejiofor Reportedly Eyed For A24's Creepypasta Horror

Cristin Milioti and Chiwetel Ejiofor are reportedly in talks to star in A24's THE BACKROOMS, a feature adaptation of Kane Parsons' viral series of found-footage videos based on a 2019 creepypasta.