Backrooms Director Eyeing A Portal Movie, But He’s Cautious About Adaptations
Backrooms Director Eyeing A Portal Movie, But He’s Cautious About Adaptations https://ift.tt/CtQXnbG 20-year-old Kane Parsons has one of the biggest movies of 2026 in Backrooms, and everyone wants to know what he will make next. In addition to spinning Backrooms into a TV series, Parsons is eyeing a movie based on Valve's Portal game. The New York Times reports that Parsons said adapting the puzzle-platformer would be his dream. The report did not include any direct quotes from Parsons about this, so that's all we know, but the author of the piece, Kyle Buchanan, shared quotes online that didn't make it into the NYT story. He said Parsons told him that Parsons was looking into directing a Portal movie "with a lot of caution and a lot of curiosity." In 2013, Valve announced plans to investigate the possibility of making Portal and Half-Life movies . Star Wars and Star Trek director JJ Abrams later came aboard to make the Portal movie. Warner Bros. was ma...
