A24's SCP Foundation Movie Is Real — But the SCP Wiki Says It Wasn't Consulted and the Rights Aren't Exclusive

A24 is making a movie based on the SCP Foundation. The people who actually built the SCP Foundation say nobody asked them.

A24 is teaming with Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios on a feature film drawing on the SCP Foundation, targeting a 2027 theatrical release as an extension of the V/H/S horror franchise. The SCP Wiki — the community-run site that has hosted and expanded the SCP mythology since 2008 — published an official statement on September 12, 2026 saying it was never consulted or contacted about the project, and that no company can hold exclusive rights to SCP material in the first place. As of this writing, A24 has not publicly responded.

What the film announcement actually says

Trade reporting confirms A24 is co-producing with Spooky Pictures’ Roy Lee and Steven Schneider, alongside V/H/S franchise veterans Josh Goldbloom and Michael Schreiber, with A24 holding what’s been described as “worldwide rights” to the project. It’s being positioned as the next installment after V/H/S/Mixtape, and has been referred to in coverage by the shorthand “V/H/S: SCP” — though that has not been established as an official title. No director, writer or cast has been announced, and Marvel-style plot secrecy applies here too: nothing about the film’s actual content has been revealed. Beyond “2027,” no specific release date exists.

The SCP Wiki’s response

The SCP Wiki’s own statement is direct: its staff and authors “were not consulted or contacted regarding this film,” and says the site has repeatedly tried to reach the filmmakers, producers and distributors without success. The statement goes further, disputing the basis of A24’s involvement altogether: “A24 does not and cannot have any exclusive rights to anything related to the SCP Foundation.” The Wiki’s stated reason is that all SCPs and related concepts, characters and stories are published under a specific open license — not because of any informal community norm, but as a matter of the license’s actual legal terms.

Why “worldwide rights” and “owning SCP” are different claims

This is the distinction easiest to get wrong, and it’s worth being precise about it. Trade coverage describing A24’s “worldwide rights” is referring to distribution rights over A24’s own film — the specific movie Spooky Pictures and Image Nation are producing — not a claim of ownership over the SCP Foundation universe itself. Nothing in the reporting on A24’s deal asserts that A24 now owns SCP, that other studios or creators are barred from making their own SCP-based work, or that A24 has acquired anything beyond the right to distribute its own production. The SCP Wiki’s statement is best read as heading off a specific misconception — that “A24 has the rights to SCP” — rather than disputing that A24 can distribute a film it makes.

SCP is not public domain — here’s what CC BY-SA 3.0 actually means

The SCP Wiki’s material is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. That’s a specific, permissive copyright license with real conditions attached — it is not the same thing as public domain, and the Wiki’s own statement is careful about that distinction. Under CC BY-SA 3.0, as the Wiki describes it: commercial and non-commercial derivative works are both permitted, but anyone creating one must give proper attribution, and — the “ShareAlike” part — release their own derivative work under that same CC BY-SA license or a compatible one. The license also, per the Wiki’s statement, prohibits DRM or copy-prevention technology on derivative works, prohibits distribution exclusivity, and cannot be used to stop others from making their own competing SCP-based projects. Violating those terms, per the license itself, forfeits the violator’s distribution rights.

None of that is Red Reactions offering legal advice or predicting how a court would rule — it’s a summary of what the SCP Wiki’s own public statement says its license requires. Whether A24’s actual film complies with those terms hasn’t been publicly tested, because the film hasn’t been made or released yet.

What remains unresolved

The SCP Wiki’s statement ends by inviting dialogue with everyone involved, offering to “discuss options for how they could make and distribute a film while complying with CC BY-SA.” As of this article, there’s no public record of that conversation happening, and A24 has not issued a public statement responding to the Wiki’s claims — outlets including AV Club reported reaching out to A24 for comment without a response as of publication. No legal filing or formal dispute exists; this is a public disagreement over terms, not litigation, and should not be described as either.

The bottom line

A24’s SCP film is a real, announced project with a 2027 target and a producing team with genuine V/H/S pedigree. It’s also, right now, a project the community that built its source material says it learned about the same way everyone else did — and whose own licensing terms the filmmakers haven’t yet publicly addressed. Both things are true at once, and neither resolves the other.