Warner Bros. Scores 'Siren Head' Movie After Fierce Five-Studio Bidding Battle
Warner Bros. won a five-studio bidding war for the viral horror meme, with a theatrical release planned and Zach Cregger and Brian Duffield attached.
- Warner Bros. Pictures won a competitive bidding war last week for the rights to "Siren Head," a viral horror meme created by Canadian creature designer Trevor Henderson, securing a theatrical release for the feature film.
- Created by Henderson in 2018, the roughly 40-foot-tall creature gained massive popularity online as a predatory monster with sirens for a head, evolving into a vast fan-driven mythology across YouTube and TikTok.
- Filmmakers Zach Cregger and Brian Duffield are teaming up to write the script, with Duffield set to direct, while producers Roy Lee, Andrew Childs, and Scott Glassgold secured the project after intense competition.
- Hollywood studios are aggressively pursuing internet-rooted horror intellectual property following "Backrooms" success, with Warner Bros. prioritizing theatrical distribution and excluding major streamers from the bidding process.
- Industry observers suggest the project could become a major horror franchise, as producers aim to expand the original mythology rather than simply recreate viral images for Gen Z-ers who are cinema's most consistent audience.
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‘Siren Head,’ Creepy Internet Sensation, Will Become Warner Bros. Movie With Brian Duffield Directing and ‘Weapons’ Filmmaker Zach Cregger Co-Writing
Fresh off the success of “Backrooms,” Hollywood has found its next Gen Z phenomenon to bring to screens. Warner Bros. has won a bidding war for the rights to “Siren Head.” And no, the name does not lie. Created by artist Trevor Henderson, this internet-fueled urban legend follows a mysterious predator who has two sirens for a head, as well as a long thin frame. Now, it will be the basis for a movie from Brian Duffield, who will direct from a s…
Lethal phrase "Zach Cregger Siren Head movie" sends Hollywood into animalistic bidding frenzy
Although it hasn’t had quite the same tail as Curry Barker’s contemporaneous low-budget horror flick Obsession, Kane Parsons’ Backrooms has at least succeeded on one metric: Convincing Hollywood studios that there’s cash to be found down in the YouTube creepypasta mines, with numerous reports of studios both large and small sending their scouts hunting for ever more copyright-light properties they can drag before young audiences raised on storie…
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