Filmmaker Curry Barker is on top of the world right now thanks to the success of his horror movie Obsession. It’s made more than $220 million against a reported $750,000 budget, and everyone wants to know what he’s going to do next.
He is making a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie, and plans to expand Obsession into possible sequels and a TV show, but what else?
A video game movie, perhaps.
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, “Yeah, probably. I feel like video games are sometimes really good concepts for movies, and I’m like, ‘Ah, man, I wish that was a movie.'”
“I’m not a huge gamer, so I don’t know. But Five Nights at Freddy’s … I probably would have went a different direction with it. But that would have been something cool [for me to do],” he added.
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.
Barker and Cregger have had similar career trajectories in some ways, having both started out with sketch comedy (That’s A Bad Idea for Barker and Whitest Kids ‘U Know for Cregger) before transitioning to making horror/psychological thrillers.
Barker also revealed his own personal favorite video game, calling out Naughty Dog’s Uncharted–though he did not single out a specific entry. That movie was already adapted for a film starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg.
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’s Portal.
