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EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Evan Muir, nan filmmaker, writer, head and integer creator known online arsenic Evan Royalty, pinch an oculus toward helping him grow his footprint crossed film, television, and beyond, while processing original IP and franchise opportunities.
Royalty is known arsenic 1 of nan defining filmmakers down YouTube’s SCP phenomenon, a bid of sci-fi horro shorts revolving astir nan online lore of nan SCP Foundation, a concealed statement covertly operating to protect humanity from malevolent entities. Like Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, this beingness emerged from a creepypasta, aliases short, user-generated scary story/urban legend, posted to nan 4chan net forum.
Muir has built nan largest and astir engaged assemblage of immoderate cinematic SCP creator done adaptations including SCP: First Contact, SCP: Dollhouse and SCP: Overlord. Since launching his YouTube transmission successful 2012, he has amassed much than 779,000 subscribers and astir 70 cardinal life views.
The signing comes amid a scramble successful Hollywood for creator-driven scary IP, and an excitement astir nan SCP Foundation successful particular, pursuing nan caller announcement that Roy Lee and Steven Schneider will nutrient a new V/H/S anthology movie group wrong nan SCP universe.
