‘Backrooms’ Director Doesn’t Want To Make a ‘Star Wars’ Movie

YouTube creators are dominating the horror movie scene right now, with movies like Obsession and Backrooms performing well with audiences and critics and making boatloads of money (especially compared to their budgets). Hollywood is currently pursuing the directors of the two films, and it has been interesting to see how they both handle being the sudden topic of conversation. Curry Barker, director of Obsession, wasted no time in jumping on a big IP.

The director will be shepherding a new iteration of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which, I’ll admit, was not the most exciting prospect at first. There never should have been another Texas Chain Saw (much less seven or eight or however many there are now), and the second one only works because Tobe Hooper was essentially making fun of the idea of even doing a sequel. However, after seeing Obsession, a good movie that I did not like, I’m down to see Barker give it a shot. Obsession is a mean movie, as is Texas Chain Saw, so the pairing could work well.

While he hasn’t been explicitly offered anything yet (to our knowledge), Kane Parsons, director of Backrooms, is likely in a similar boat, with studios happy to let him take over whatever IP they’ve acquired over the years in hopes of it turning into a success. However, on a recent episode of the podcast The Town with Matt Beloni, Parsons was asked if he was interested in tackling a big IP movie, like a Star Wars film, and his answer was a simple and swift “No.”

“I’m not too interested in IP work,” the young director elaborated. “I pretty much entirely want to focus on original projects. Just because, I do this because it’s my way of processing life, as is art, and I typically find needing to step into someone else’s view of life tends to just kind of damage the initial point for me.” That’s pretty cool, man! I absolutely understand Barker’s want to get in on a franchise he loves. I’d probably do the same, given the opportunity, but Parsons holding back is very respectable.

However, Parsons did admit that there may be a franchise or two that would pique his interest. “I think barring like one or two things from my personal childhood, stuff from the early 2000s, like one or two things really, without naming them out loud,” he explained. “The only ones I would look at are ones that have shaped my own experience of life so much that I feel like I have something to do with that conversation in the first place.” Yup. his childhood in the… early 2000s.

Good for you, Kane. Go make that Shrek movie. Give us another entry in the Butterfly Effect franchise! Finally, make that Along Came Polly remake you’ve been itching for. It’s the early 2000s, baby, the possibilities are… finite.