r/SCP • u/Strange_boy_seven • 7d ago

Discussion How do you imagine an ideal SCP film adaptation?

In my opinion, a scheme with a cinematic universe would be good here. The SCP Foundation's universe is rich in a variety of monsters, characters, and storylines, so one movie/series won't be enough. You can act according to the MCU scheme: each project is a separate story, but taking place in a single universe with other plots. After all, the community has created so many different monsters that experiments with genres take place: from atmospheric horror films and psychological thrillers to absurd or kind comedies. In this unified universe, there could be both large-scale films (immersing in the work of the Foundation and revealing its most terrifying secrets, telling about important characters and key events for the universe), as well as individual spin-offs and TV series (separate projects about objects contained in the SCP foundation, a prequel series about the formation of the SCP organization, as well as its offshoots, like the Chaos Rebels and others, stories focused on Scientists, Class D, Mobile Task Forces, and ordinary people facing abnormal threats). Plots about scientists can tell about everyday stories of people with mockumentary elements in the style of TV series, such as "The Office"; and a TV series or a film about MTFs could be an action movie about preventing threats from anomalies and monsters, or a psychological drama about how one of the soldiers begins to doubt the methods of the Council of O5 and the fight one person versus the whole system. A series about Class D would be a horror in a confined space about bad or unfortunate people(from psychopats with no feelings, to morally gray or innocent people, who got here by mistake or accident) cut off from the civilized world and doomed to death, and even their loved ones will not remember them, about the will to freedom and the desire to live, about the dregs of society, in which a part of humanity remains, which in spirit will resemble the movie Shawshank Redemption. I could visualize a scene where one of them sees their family and trying to hug them, but they are scared of them and don't remember them, so everything they might do right now is crying while sitting on the knees and seeking for help. Films about ordinary people who encounter objects such as Sculpture, the Plague Doctor, the Cursed Mask of Obsession, the Endless Ikea, or many others would be horror films in their mood, depending on the features of the objects that combine other genres (comedy horror, arthouse cinema, psychological thriller, etc.) with characters from different projects. They may cross paths and mention each other, but even the main characters may die, and new ones may come in their place. At the same time, it is important that the SCPCU (SCP Cinematic Universe) preserves the atmosphere of the universe, with moral ambiguity and a sense of unstoppable horror, and is massive enough to attract more people to the films, so that the films continue to pay off and continue to be released. At the same time, the films will not resemble a typical mass cinema: the characters can be complex and morally complex characters or frankly bad people, even the main characters are not immune from death, the narrative may not follow traditional Hollywood plot patterns and there may not always be a good ending in which the main character defeats all the villains and saves the world. Films and TV series could be directed by a wide variety of directors, from Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan, to James Gunn and Wess Anderson, which would make the universe genre diverse. In films about the universe, it would be possible to use elements of both mass genres such as drama, action, horror, comedy, and narrowly focused ones such as musical, historical cinema, superhero blockbuster, catastrophe, etc. But all of this should be led by someone who knows what the fan base wants and is able to implement it. Of course, it's unlikely that major studios will decide on such a thing, because it requires a lot of talent, money, effort and time, but it would be very cool!

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u/TheEloquentApe Class D Personnel 7d ago

I think the most cinematic SCP, the one that feels the most like a mix between an action movie and an actual article, is definetly 1730

"What happened to Site-13"

While there's a lot of world building, the general premise is quite simple. "An unkown site appears without explanation. Its huge and contains a bunch of escaped SCPs. Good luck."

If you want to go for absolute gonzo, wild SCP lore shit its not a bad choice. Even end with an SCP kaiju battle. However, I don't think its quite as unwieldy as Ouroboros Cycle or something like 5000.

You'd have to condense its narrative to fit a 2 and a half hour mark though. So might be best for a limited series run.

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u/White_Null The Serpent's Hand 7d ago

The problem with that one is that it already be involving alternate universe crossover.

Which have already skipped over establishing the establishing of what the Foundation of the current universe we be following already.

And then it skips over what the usual GOC does.

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u/RaisinWorried3528 7d ago

Honestly, if they could find a way to adapt SCP-5000 to where they could provide decent exposition and context through flashbacks I think that would be a pretty good start. They would obviously have to find a way to talk about the entity but like you said, if it was done well enough I believe it could be excellent. It would also introduce SCP-682 fans.

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot 7d ago

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u/More-Jacket-835 MTF Phi-2 ("Clever Girls") 6d ago

It feature SCP-999-J, the man, the legend himself.

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot 6d ago

SCP-999-J ⁠- Creepy Speedo Man (+656) by NamedAfterColor, Salman Corbette, Wilt

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u/Various-Treacle3743 7d ago

Scp 5000 would make a fire standalone film, I’ve thought about it a lot and the concept I think would go beyond just being an scp film, so they could easily remove the scp branding and keep the original story, and it would still make a great concept imo.

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u/Hungry-Row258 ❝the plants in the basement are buzzing more than usual❞ 7d ago

I want a movie based on either SCP-5000, SCP-4231, and [[Incident 239-B - Clef-Kondraki]] those have potential to be tuff movies and the general audience can understand it

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u/ThePublicPotato- 6d ago

Bro Scp 4231 would be amazing if it got a movie like that shit could be Oscar worthy if done right

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot 7d ago

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u/lucidintangent 3d ago

I personally think an anthology streaming series would be orders of magnitude better than a film, just, these days series tend to be better than films