The SCP Foundation is having a very good year. Just two weeks after A24 announced that they were coming aboard V/H/S: SCP, bringing the internet horror phenomenon into the V/H/S franchise and targeting a 2027 theatrical release, NEON has announced its own completely separate SCP Foundation movie. NEON will develop and produce an anthology feature based on the long-running community fiction project, with a theatrical release planned for 2027. So, yes, we’re now looking at dueling SCP movies.
NEON’s film will focus on emerging filmmakers and will be made in collaboration with the open-source SCP community. The studio has also committed to releasing the movie and related materials under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license, in keeping with the licensing structure that has governed the SCP Foundation for years.
No director, cast, specific stories, or release date have been announced yet, but the announcement makes one thing clear: SCP is officially heading to theaters twice in 2027.
According to NEON’s announcement, the studio will develop and produce an anthology feature based on the SCP Foundation, with the project specifically designed to showcase emerging filmmakers, which is an appropriate format for the property. The SCP Foundation isn’t a traditional franchise built around one central character or a single storyline. Created online in 2008, the SCP Wiki has grown into a massive collaborative universe containing thousands of stories about anomalous objects, creatures, locations, and phenomena. Those stories are generally presented through the framework of the mysterious SCP Foundation, an organization tasked with securing, containing, and studying anomalies.
The result is an enormous horror and science fiction universe that can accommodate everything from cosmic horror and monsters to bizarre science fiction concepts and unsettling psychological stories. So an anthology movie is a natural way to bring SCP to the big screen.
The SCP Wiki operates under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. That means derivative works can be created and even sold, but they must follow the license’s attribution and share-alike requirements.
V/H/S: SCP is being produced by A24, Spooky Pictures, and Image Nation Studios, with A24 holding worldwide rights and targeting a 2027 theatrical release. Plot details are still under wraps.
The movie will reportedly use the V/H/S format to tell stories involving different SCP objects, entities, and containment breaches, framing the footage as recovered documentation connected to the secretive organization.
That means A24’s project has it’s own specific identity: SCP meets found footage anthology horror. NEON’s movie, meanwhile, is being described simply as an anthology feature with a focus on emerging filmmakers.
The situation stems from the way the SCP Foundation was created and licensed.
The SCP Wiki is an open-source collaborative fiction project rather than an intellectual property controlled by one studio. When A24 announced V/H/S: SCP in September, the SCP Wiki’s licensing team raised concerns about the project and emphasized that A24 did not have exclusive rights to the entire SCP universe. The Wiki also said it had not been involved in the project’s development at that point.
NEON’s announcement takes a different approach. The studio says it has been in communication with the SCP Wiki team and is committed to releasing the movie and related materials under the CC BY-SA license.
NEON is no stranger to horror movies. The company has been behind or involved with genre releases like Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs, which starred Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage, and The Monkey, based on the Stephen King story. NEON also has several other genre projects in development.
Its SCP movie will continue the company’s relationship with filmmakers working outside the traditional studio system, with the announcement specifically emphasizing emerging directors. The studio says it wants to “contribute to the long running open-source horror project,” rather than treating SCP as another piece of intellectual property.
We don’t know yet. Both NEON’s SCP Foundation anthology and A24’s V/H/S: SCP are targeting 2027 theatrical releases, but neither movie currently has a specific release date.
A24’s project seems further along at this point, since it is already attached to the V/H/S franchise and has producers in place. NEON’s announcement is more mysterious, with the studio revealing the project, its anthology format, its Creative Commons plans, and its 2027 target while leaving most production details under wraps.
For now, horror fans can look forward to two completely different movies attempting to bring the SCP Foundation to the big screen in 2027. And considering the large supply of stories contained within the SCP universe, there is enough material for both.
The SCP Foundation is coming to theaters. Twice. Which project are you more interested in, A24’s V/H/S movie, or NEON’s anthology? Let us know by leaving a comment below.