{"id":61164,"date":"2026-06-16T15:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=61164"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:40:05","slug":"obsession-director-would-be-up-for-a-video-game-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=61164","title":{"rendered":"Obsession Director Would Be Up For A Video Game Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-15-at-5.07.12-PM.png?w=300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Filmmaker Curry Barker is on top of the world right now thanks to the success of his horror movie Obsession. It&#8217;s made more than $220 million against a reported $750,000 budget, and everyone wants to know what he&#8217;s going to do next. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is making a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie, and plans to expand Obsession into possible sequels and a TV show, but what else? <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A video game movie, perhaps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He told Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that while he is not a big gamer himself, he would be open to making a video game movie one day. Asked if there was a specific game that he would jump at the chance to direct, if asked, he said, &#8220;Yeah, probably. I feel like video games are sometimes really good concepts for movies, and I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Ah, man, I wish that was a movie.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not a huge gamer, so I don&#8217;t know. But Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s &#8230; I probably would have went a different direction with it. But that would have been something cool [for me to do],&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curry also talked about how he had dinner with Zach Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian) and he thinks Cregger is being really smart with his idea for Resident Evil and making a movie in the spirit of the games but not an adaptation of a specific title. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barker and Cregger have had similar career trajectories in some ways, having both started out with sketch comedy (That&#8217;s A Bad Idea for Barker and Whitest Kids &#8216;U Know for Cregger) before transitioning to making horror\/psychological thrillers. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Curry Barker on OBSESSION (Spoilers!), TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, going from Youtube to film, &amp; more!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J61DU21Q_N4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barker also revealed his own personal favorite video game, calling out Naughty Dog&#8217;s Uncharted&#8211;though he did not single out a specific entry. That movie was already adapted for a film starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another director with a breakout movie this year, Kane Parsons (Backrooms), said he is also interested in making a video game movie, and it could be an adaptation of Valve&#8217;s Portal.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/obsession-director-would-be-up-for-a-video-game-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker Curry Barker is on top of the world right now thanks to the success of his horror movie Obsession. 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