User blog comment:CorruptLungs/Creepypasta Movies?/@comment-1473107-20140427195926

Honestly, while the idea of any character/story in the CreepyPasta realm/multiverse/genre... uh...thing getting a movie is fun to imagine (heck, I wouldn't mind multiple characters in the same movie), I would be extremely reluctant to let any studio in Hollywood get their hooks in any Creepypasta (even the shittier ones), for two reasons:

-First, this is Hollywood, and it's no secret these guys have made f***ing up the transfer from literature/comics to the silver screen a goddamn art form. It's part of why I cringed when I heard Marble Hornets was teaming up with one of the big Hollywood studios to make a feature-length film, and I don't even follow MH.

-Second, there's the issue of Hollywood's copyright. Several of CreepyPasta's iconic characters have no known creators [see: Jeff the Killer, Mr. Widemouth, Eyeless Jack(?), etc.], and thus are technically considered public domain. A lot of the studios in Hollywood have this nasty habit of trying to claim copyright over public domain characters and then claim anyone else that created content using those characters (before or after) is infringing on "their copyright" and therefore owes them money [which is invalid because stuff in the public domain belongs to everyone (including for commercial use), but Hollywood has enough big-money lawyers to browbeat most people into submission].

For example, imagine Jeff the Killer [the character or the pasta] getting used by some Hollywood studio to make a horror film. There's a good chance that studio could turn around and say they own the copyright to Jeff [after all, no one knows who wrote the original pasta], and then go after, for example, MrCreepyPasta for narrating the original Jeff the Killer pasta, despite the fact that he narrated the story long before Hollywood even knew JtK existed.

I'd be more slightly comfortable if an independent studio was going to make a CreepyPasta movie [they're usually less lawsuit-crazy than the folks in Hollywood], but I'd still be extremely concerned about how they could screw everything else up.