After the success of Five Nights at Freddy’s on the big screen, it makes sense that Hollywood studios are scrambling to find their next hit, which might convince Generation Alpha to put down their computers and phones for a while and head to the nearest movie theater. However, attempts to turn the dizzying Internet virus “Skibidi Toilet” into a franchise possible A little too much.
Variety shared an exclusive interview with filmmaker Michael Bay and Paramount Pictures president Adam Goodman on July 24. They seriously viewed Skibidi toilets as something with film and television potential.
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If you’re not a teenager yet, chances are you have no idea what the hell we’re talking about, so let’s give you a quick overview of the legend of Skibidi Toilet: In a general sense, Skibidi Toilet is a mecha web series created by Alexey Gerasimov and uploaded to YouTube videos and clips from channel DaFuq!?Boom!. These were created using Valve’s handy Source Filmmaker, and while the series started out as a joke, it somehow evolved into a story that presented a fictional war between humanoid characters with toilet heads and electronic devices on their heads.
Here’s the thing: For anyone who grew up watching YouTube poop and shitty GMod videos, the Skibidi toilet phenomenon doesn’t exist That It’s strange that there was actual effort and artistry put into the film, but the fact that it has made it into the mainstream and is even being considered by Hollywood to launch a film/TV franchise is the confusing part here. I think we opened Pandora’s box back in the late 2000s with early uploads like Skibidi.
However, Goodman stressed that Skibidi toilets were not their top priority: “We are definitely in talks right now, both on the TV side and the earliest conversations on the film side right now… but it’s not a perfect fit. solution. It’s possible that he and Bay aren’t too interested in Gerasimov’s wacky world, but you can’t miss a great opportunity to connect with a younger generation actively rejecting traditional media in favor of more easily consumable crap.
As for Bay’s involvement, that doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll be directing a movie or TV series, as he’s also a fairly accomplished producer (the recent “The Quiet” series is a good example). That said, considering he ended up directing five Transformers movies, it’s not completely out of the question that he could be the director of at least one tentative project. So yes, of course. I just don’t care right now. It would be nice to do anything before the culture implodes on itself.
