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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: A Creepy Internet Meme Is Becoming a Horror Movie in a Deal Worth Millions · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: With the runaway success of the horror movie back Rooms,
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  Speaker 2: this summer born out of a creepy corner of internet culture.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Hollywood's gonna be lurking around on the interwebs
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  Speaker 2: looking for the next odd ball, million dollar idea. They
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  Speaker 2: may have found it, actually.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, with Sirenhead, one of the strangest memes on the Internet,
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  Speaker 3: which is now becoming a movie with big names involved.
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  Speaker 3: Weapons director Zach Kreiger is producing and co writing the script.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a pretty weird character to bring to life.
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  Speaker 1: It's basically a fifty foot.
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  Speaker 4: Tall, super skinny rotting skeleton with two sirens for ahead.
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  Speaker 4: It started as a single drawing posted on Instagram in
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  Speaker 4: twenty eighteen by Canadian artist named Trevor Henderson, and then
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  Speaker 4: a few months later it kind of took off.
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  Speaker 1: And he's not really sure why.
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  Speaker 2: But just by you saying that to me, I will
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  Speaker 2: not sleep tonight, Tanya. Thank you. People found it, they
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  Speaker 2: loved it, they reimagined it, they ran with it. There
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  Speaker 2: became fan fiction, AI videos, a whole mythology, a video game,
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  Speaker 2: and reportedly alter the tune of three billion views on.
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  Speaker 3: TikTok, which is why a bidding war ensued and Warner.
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  Speaker 5: Brothers ended up spending several millions of dollars just to
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  Speaker 5: lock down the rights to it.
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  Speaker 2: Siren Ahead marks the first mega deal like this since
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  Speaker 2: back Rooms became such a hit, so look for more
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  Speaker 2: to come that's
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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood.