Kane Parsons, the younger director of Backrooms, has expressed curiosity in directing a Portal movie. In a current interview with The New York Times, Parsons famous that a Portal adaptation is a dream challenge. This is not as a result of Parsons has an curiosity in changing into an IP service provider, fairly the alternative. When talking on The Town podcast, Parsons outright stated he was bored with doing a Star Wars movie and that the one IPs that have been engaging to him have been a choose few from his childhood within the 2000s. He uncared for to title them as a result of he is actively exploring these as choices, however it led some to imagine he could also be trying into adapting Portal.
Parsons grew up with Valve titles like Half-Life and Portal, even going so far as making a Portal brief movie on his YouTube channel lengthy earlier than he’d ever make the Backrooms sequence. The franchise additionally shares some similarities with giant, vapid rooms which have an eerie high quality to them. Some have drawn connections between the liminal house horror of one thing like Backrooms to the unnerving nature of Aperture Science’s sterile check chambers and extra particularly, the corridors and caverns tucked behind a few of these chambers in Portal 2.
There have been makes an attempt to adapt Portal previously. Director JJ Abrams was as soon as connected to convey each Half-Life and Portal to the massive display screen via his manufacturing firm, Dangerous Robotic. Nevertheless, that announcement was made in 2013 and it does not look like there was a lot motion since. Abrams famous to IGN in 2021 that Portal was nonetheless in improvement at Warner Bros., however as soon as once more, it has been very quiet.
It is unclear what the maintain up has been, however with there being a main increase in gaming diversifications, it appears solely logical that somebody on the market would need to convey Portal to life. Parsons will be the man for the job, however we’ll have to wait and see if Valve agrees along with his imaginative and prescient. It is potential that Dangerous Robotic and WB may be sitting on the rights, which might create different issues. Nevertheless, after seeing how profitable Backrooms has been, it could be foolish to not get Parsons lined up for his dream challenge.
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