Portal movie given fresh teaser with cryptic Instagram post

Backrooms director Kane Parsons has teased a possible collaboration with Valve, with many fans believing this could be our first hint at a film based on Portal or Half-Life.

Earlier this week, Parsons posted a cryptic image of a valve on his Instagram story, with no other imagery or text hinting at what the teaser could be alluding to.

With the success earlier this year of Parsons’ debut feature film, Backrooms, fans now speculate that the director’s next major project will be something based on a Valve property, with Portal or Half-Life being the frontrunners.

Given that the director has previously expressed interest in doing a Portal movie, and has visited the company’s offices in Bellevue, Washington several times this year, rumours of a movie collaboration have surfaced in recent weeks.

However, no further details are available right now.

Previously, a film adaptation of Portal had been in development as early as 2013, with J.J. Abrams’ production company Bad Robot involved with the script. Although Abrams confirmed the film was still in development as of 2022, no further updates have been made.

Meanwhile, Portal fans looking for some new content may want to check out Portal: Alive & Kicking, a brand new fan game that remakes the original Portal within the Portal 2 engine, featuring many graphical upgrades and quality-of-life features.

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We think Kane Parsons is the perfect director for a Portal movie

Given the similarities between Portal and Backrooms, particularly the use of empty rooms and otherworldly, non-euclidean spaces to create dread, we can’t think of a director more perfect to take on a Portal movie than Kane Parsons.

The 20-year-old director started his career by uploading videos on YouTube under the name kanepixels, beginning with short animated fan films based on the anime series Attack on Titan before turning his attention to the Backrooms.

Based on the 2019 viral creepypasta, Parsons’ Backrooms was presented as a found footage series focusing on individuals who found themselves lost in the titular Backrooms, as well as the work of the Async Research institute that seek to better understand the rooms.

A total of 25 episodes were produced for Parsons’ YouTube channel, with episode lengths varying between several minutes long to over 45 minutes, and more episodes are confirmed to be in the works.

After the series had gone viral with tens of millions of views, Parsons was approached by several film studios to direct a feature-length version. This culminated in A24 producing Backrooms, with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve starring in the lead roles.

Released earlier this year, Backrooms received positive reviews from critics and viewers alike, with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 86% and an average rating of 7.4/10. It grossed $402.5 million on a $10 million budget, and has resulted in Parsons wanting to explore more stories within the Backrooms universe. A potential television series has been floated around as an idea, as well as a sequel to the film.

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