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Neon Counters A24's SCP Movie, It Follows Sequel Casting, Flanagan's Carrie Reviews — Pop Culture Digest — October 5, 2026
Neon is making its own SCP Foundation movie under an open Creative Commons license to counter A24's contested version; The It Follows sequel They Follow adds James Jordan as Maika Monroe returns; Mike Flanagan's Carrie arrives on Prime Video with Stephen King calling it brilliant; Tommy Dorfman is adapting the transgender horror novel Carrying; and The Boys creator Garth Ennis gets another comic adaptation in Freddie the Fix.
Neon Is Making Its Own SCP Foundation Movie — and Giving It to the Internet
Two studios are now racing to put the internet's strangest horror universe on the big screen, and one of them is doing it the way the fandom actually asked for.
Neon is developing an SCP Foundation anthology film, slated for 2027, and has committed to releasing it under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. In plain terms: anyone can copy, screen, remix or even commercially adapt the movie, as long as they credit the original creators and filmmakers and release their own version under the same license. Neon says it has been in communication with the SCP Wiki's licensing team.
That is a pointed answer to A24, which unveiled its own SCP movie with Spooky Pictures and Image Nation earlier in September — and was promptly brushed back by the SCP Wiki team, who said they had not been contacted and feared a studio claiming exclusive rights to a universe built by thousands of volunteers. Neon is calling its version an "open-source horror project" and a platform for emerging filmmakers, and Deadline hears development was underway before the A24 announcement. No word yet on who reaches theaters first.
The SCP Wiki dates to 2008, a collaborative speculative-fiction site about a secret organisation that contains supernatural objects and entities. Its rise to Hollywood currency follows A24's Backrooms, which grossed roughly $400 million against a $10 million budget — after which Warner Bros. snapped up Siren Head and TriStar grabbed Cartoon Cat.
The It Follows Sequel Finally Has a Cast — Including a Landman Star
They Follow, David Robert Mitchell's long-awaited sequel to It Follows, has quietly added James Jordan — Dale on Paramount+'s Landman — to its cast, per Deadline.
Maika Monroe is back as Jay, the role that made her, opposite newcomer Naomi Ackie. The ensemble also includes Jackie Earle Haley, Justine Lupe, Michael Gandolfini, Melora Walters and Tom Pecinka, among others. Mitchell wrote and directs again, and Neon holds worldwide rights and will release it in U.S. theaters. The only plot detail anyone has: it takes place roughly a decade after the original. The 2015 film cost a little over $1 million, grossed about $23 million, and is still regularly called one of the best horror movies of the 2010s.
Sources: Deadline
Stephen King Called Flanagan's Carrie "Brilliant" — and the Reviews Are In
Mike Flanagan's Carrie arrives on Prime Video on October 7, all eight episodes at once, and the reviews have already started landing. Stephen King, who wrote the 1974 novel, got in early: "Mike Flanagan's version of CARRIE is brilliant," he wrote. "What it has to say about social media is shocking and true." His son, Joe Hill, admitted the trailer had him fighting back tears.
The adaptation reframes Carrie White's story for the viral age — a bullying scandal that tears through a community rather than just a prom night. Summer H. Howell plays Carrie, with Samantha Sloyan (a Flanagan regular from Hill House and Midnight Mass) as Margaret, Matthew Lillard as Principal Grayle and Siena Agudong as Sue Snell. Critics are split but mostly warm: some call it the first worthy take since Brian De Palma's 1976 film, others think it stretches a lean novel further than it needed to go.
Sources: Deadline · Bloody Disgusting · Variety
Tommy Dorfman Is Adapting a Transgender Horror Novel, Carrying
Tommy Dorfman (13 Reasons Why) will direct and produce a feature adaptation of Carrying, the debut horror novel by Samantha Josephs, who is writing the screenplay herself. Good Girl Productions, the company Dorfman launched in 2025, is backing it.
The book — out October 6 from Putnam/Penguin Random House, and shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize — follows Martha, a stealth trans woman who, after starting experimental treatments for a mysterious chronic illness, discovers she is impossibly pregnant. Dorfman's slate also includes an adaptation of Torrey Peters' Detransition, Baby and a film based on Allie Rowbottom's thriller Aestetica.
Sources: Variety
The Boys Creator's Freddie the Fix Is Getting a Movie
Garth Ennis, who wrote The Boys and Preacher, has another comic headed for the screen. Amazon MGM Studios is developing Freddie the Fix, with Lawrence Lamont (One of Them Days) attached to direct and Kalen Egan and Travis Sentell writing.
The Image Comics title, drawn by Mike Perkins for the Ninth Circle horror line, is a horror-noir about a Hollywood fixer who cleans up after werewolves, vampires, zombies, aliens and things — pitched as "the horror-skewed intersection of The Boys and Ray Donovan." With The Boys now wrapped, it's Amazon keeping the Ennis pipeline running.
Sources: Deadline · Bloody Disgusting
Nuggets
- R.L. Stine is making a clown movie for Tubi. R.L. Stine's Afraid of Clowns hits the streamer in 2027 — his third Tubi film after two Pumpkinhead movies — with a cast that includes Jimbo, the RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 8 winner. Variety
- George A. Romero's final zombie film finally wrapped. Twilight of the Dead, finished by directors Doran and Yoav Paz from a treatment Romero co-wrote before his death, stars Kate Beckinsale and Betty Gabriel, with Greg Nicotero handling effects. No release date yet. Gizmodo
- Richard Kelly still wants a third Donnie Darko cut. In a Reddit AMA, the director said he is "not satisfied with either" the theatrical or director's cut, and that a third would lean back toward the theatrical version — with Echo & the Bunnymen used at both the opening and the party scene. A sequel novel is on the way. Bloody Disgusting
- Charlie Brooker's next Netflix series has a title. Blackmere adds Rory Kinnear to the cast, with first-look photos revealed. Variety
Sources: Variety · Deadline · Bloody Disgusting · Gizmodo
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