Neon has announced that it is making a film based on the SCP Foundation, the vast, collaboratively written horror wiki — a move that follows a licensing fight that put A24 on the wrong side of the internet's biggest horror community.
A24 was working on an SCP film, but had not contacted the SCP Wiki team and had not committed to releasing the project under a Creative Commons licence, as the wiki's terms require. Neon, seeing what its rival had left on the table, says it has proactively reached out to the wiki's volunteer team and pledged to release its film under the Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) licence.
The result is not an 'official' SCP film. The wiki's staff is not involved in the writing or the production, receives no compensation, and the team's formal position is not to endorse projects like this one — a stance it has held as the community's fiction has moved from forum posts to streaming.
Beyond the licence, almost nothing is known about the project. Neon says the film will be in theatres in 2027, implying a fast turnaround and probably a modest budget; that would fit a production whose commercial upside is constrained by a ShareAlike licence, which permits derivative works only if they carry the same terms.
The SCP Foundation Wiki's administrators responded with a statement thanking Neon for what they called 'excellent communication and commitment to following the requirements of our license as well as the spirit of collaboration at the core of the SCP Foundation project.' The episode is a rare case of a studio treating a community licence as a product requirement rather than a formality — and of that courtesy doubling as marketing.
