Kane Parsons is slated to direct Backrooms 2 for A24. This development builds on the original project’s momentum and on Parsons’s rise from a viral short to a feature filmmaker.
Parsons first surfaced in 2022 with The Backrooms (Found Footage), a nine-minute clip uploaded to YouTube when he was 16. The video helped shape an online mythology and drew attention from the industry, ultimately bringing executive producer Chris White into the project after his son saw the clip. White then connected Parsons with James Wan and Michael Clear at Atomic Monster, clearing the path for A24 to acquire the rights and for Parsons to direct his debut feature while still a teenager.
The resulting film proved to be a breakout, turning Parsons’s online experiment into a theatrical phenomenon and helping establish a broader Backrooms franchise under A24’s banner.
Parsons himself has publicly framed Backrooms as only the beginning—an ongoing narrative that would extend beyond a single film and into a wider series. In interviews prior to the film’s release, he described the project as a doorway into a larger story he’d been building online, while also noting contractual commitments to additional Backrooms projects and “very specific things” already in the works. The original film expanded its mythology by introducing Async, a mysterious organization studying the Backrooms phenomenon, into the feature story.
What Backrooms 2 means for the project’s future
Backrooms 2 is Parsons’s next film, with him signed to direct for A24, continuing the Backrooms project under the collaboration with Atomic Monster.
Backrooms 2 continues Parsons’s involvement with the Backrooms project and the collaborators who helped bring the original efforts to life.
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