A24 Reportedly Never Contacted SCP Foundation Authors Over Film
There's also a licensing issue that limits how the studio can profit from V/H/S: SCP.
SCP
Following the success of Backrooms, A24 appears to be turning its attention to another major internet horror phenomenon: the SCP Foundation. Like Backrooms, SCP began on anonymous imageboards before growing into a massive collaborative fiction project centered on the Foundation's efforts to capture, contain, and study paranormal anomalies, with much of its material published through a community-run wiki.
The upcoming film adaptation, described as an extension of the V/H/S horror series, is currently targeting a 2027 theatrical release. There's one big problem, however: SCP Foundation content must be released under the Creative Commons ShareAlike 3.0 license, which makes it hard to profit from it.
On top of that, the SCP Foundation Wiki has issued a statement saying that, despite reports claiming A24 has worldwide rights to the film, its team has never been contacted by A24's representatives:
"The staff and authors of the SCP Foundation Wiki (the real-life writing project behind the SCP Foundation universe and its official home) were not consulted or contacted regarding this film. We have been attempting to contact the filmmakers but haven't yet been successful.
To be clear: we have not had any communication with the filmmakers, producers, or distributors for this project, despite our best efforts, and to the best of our knowledge, they have not made any efforts to contact us. Furthermore, A24 does not and cannot have any exclusive rights to anything related to the SCP Foundation, including any films that Spooky Pictures or anyone else may choose to create."
Basically, A24 can't have exclusive rights to SCP. The wiki authors explain that, just like anyone can make SCP games, short films, or web series as long as they follow the license, anyone could do the same with the film. That could even mean someone uploading it to YouTube, and this is also why Hollywood has never made a film based on SCP material.
The SCP Foundation Wiki says it's still willing to work with the film's producers on a release that follows the license. If they choose to ignore the issue, A24 and Spooky Pictures would have two options: continue with the film and deal with the legal issues later, or remove the SCP branding entirely.
Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Josh Goldbloom, and Michael Schreiber are set to produce this SCP-based film in the V/H/S series. Lee is also known for producing Weapons (2025), The Long Walk (2025), and Barbarian (2022), while Schneider has worked on major horror franchises including Paranormal Activity and Insidious.
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