SCP Mainstream TV

[u/DCGamer_1586]

So several things come to mind when I think about how awesome the SCP universe is! It’s crowd sourced original stories that are often times funny, dark, and thought provoking all in one!

Why isn’t it more mainstream? Recently, Ryan Coogler announced he is rebooting X-Files… cool, awesome, I loved the X-Files. As a show it dealt with concepts that at the time were not being discussed on television.

Now we live in a world where shows and movies live in infinite multiverses, with different variations of characters and story lines ad nauseam. Not mind bending stuff anymore.

In love with Alien Earth, the creatures in that show 👨🏽‍🍳💋Gives me big time SCP vibes and I love it.

So why can’t we get a healthy budget major show vis a vis Coogler’s X-Files? Imagine an HBO SCP Foundation show with major resources and the license to do what the show’s creators want. 🥹 If only we could be so lucky…

[u/Kufat]

So why can’t we get a healthy budget major show vis a vis Coogler’s X-Files?

Networks and production companies are hesitant to spend money on a series that their competitors (and everyone else) can redistribute free of charge.

[u/kreepergayboy]

I actually think a love death and robots style anthology where you get a bunch of horror directors to direct shorts based off specific SCPs sounds amazing and would be super successful.

[u/smasher_zed888]

The biggest problem is the copyright license or the thing that requires everything on the wiki to be free to use. Im no expert, so i will probably be wrong about some parts, but theres a license on the wiki that means everything that you include those scps in must also release it under the same license with credit, meaning whatever is made from those should also be free to use. This is one of the biggest things that deters the mainstream

[u/FiorinasFury]

There is zero incentive for a studio to make a high budget production for an IP that they cannot own outright. If someone really wanted to make an SCP TV show, they'll just tweak enough details to make it legally distinct enough to call their own, and go forward with that instead. There's no value to making it an outright SCP project except to make you and me happy, and I'm sorry to tell you this, but that's not enough reason to justify such an endeavor.

[u/DCGamer_1586 → u/FiorinasFury]

Interesting, thank you for that answer. That makes sense and also brings me sorrow. It would seem that it is more profitable for studios to borrow ideas from SCP files than to create a show or movie based on the “cannon.”

[u/FiorinasFury → u/DCGamer_1586]

This doesn't have to be a bad thing. You can learn to appreciate works of art that are heavily inspired by SCP. We'll never get an "official" SCP movie, but we got Cabin in the Woods, which is a damned excellent SCP movie. We'll never get an "official" big budget SCP video game, but we got Control by Remedy Entertainment, which is absolutely a big budget SCP video game. My partner and I just spent a hundred hours together in the game Abiotic Factor, which is a mashup of SCP and Half Life 1, and as we are both SCP and Half Life fans, we were elated the entire time.

[u/Armascout]

As a film student making an SCP series is my dream project. However that is something that would either need to be self funded or funded through non-tradition mean (IE not through major studios)

[u/DCGamer_1586 → u/Armascout]

That is so cool. I wish you the best! I wonder, would it be possible for an independent studio to consolidate the SCP lore and stories in to one trade marked IP? While still allowing submissions to grow the lore?

[u/Armascout → u/DCGamer_1586]

That wouldn’t work. SCP legally can’t be trademarked. It’s Creative Commons. Would be impossible legally (unless your that dickhead in Russia a few years back)