A24 has an SCP movie. The SCP Wiki would like a word.

The SCP Foundation is heading toward theaters in 2027, but this announcement got complicated almost immediately.

A24 has boarded a feature based on the massive collaborative internet horror universe, working with Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios.

The project is being developed as an extension of the “V/H/S” franchise, with A24 taking worldwide theatrical distribution under the announced deal.

Roy Lee and Steven Schneider are producing for Spooky Pictures alongside Josh Goldbloom and Michael Schreiber. Plot details have not been released.

Then the people behind the SCP Wiki responded.

SCP Wiki staff published a statement saying they were not contacted or consulted about the film and had been trying unsuccessfully to reach the filmmakers. They also disputed any suggestion that A24 or another company could hold exclusive rights over SCP material.

That comes down to the unusual way SCP exists.

The SCP Foundation began online as a collaborative fiction project and grew into an enormous shared universe filled with anomalous creatures, objects, locations and secret containment operations. The work is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. Commercial adaptations are allowed, but derivative works have to follow the conditions of that license.

So this is not the usual situation where a studio buys a horror property from one author and locks the door behind it.

The Wiki staff explicitly said they are open to discussing the film with the producers. They are not arguing that nobody can make an SCP movie. Their concern is how the announced production intends to operate under the license that allowed the universe to grow in the first place.

Creatively, SCP and “V/H/S” actually make a lot of sense together. The SCP universe thrives on fragmented reports, corrupted records, recovered media and encounters with things nobody fully understands. An anthology or found-footage structure could handle that without trying to explain thousands of pages of lore in two hours.

First, though, everybody may want to answer the email from the people who built the archive.