THIS IS NOT A DRILL
PlayStation’s “Bloodborne” is being developed into an R-rated animated feature for Sony Pictures that the studio says will embrace the carnage that made the game so popular.
Sanford Panitch, president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, promised during the studio’s CinemaCon presentation that the long-rumored film will be “very true” to the gory spirit of “Bloodborne,” which follows a traveler who journeys into a gothic city full of nightmarish creatures.
“Bloodborne” was developed by FromSoftware and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, which shares a parent company with Sony Pictures and PlayStation. The film is co-produced by PlayStation Productions, Lyrical Animation and creator and gamer Seán McLoughlin, better known by his pseudonym JackSepticEye. For the uninitiated, McLoughlin is a gamer who has spent years in the world of “Bloodborne,” where his digital adventures are tracked by 48 million online fans.
Lyrical Media, parent company of Lyrical Animation, is co-financing “Bloodborne” with Sony Pictures. McLoughlin is repped by CAA, Nicole Ambrose, Hansen Jacobson, and 42 West.
From the reddit announcement post:
Hey guys, I’m Jacksepticeye and as just announced at Cinemacon, Sony Pictures is officially making an animated Bloodborne feature film. I am producing this project and you have no idea how incredibly excited I am to finally be able to talk about it!! I am going to do everything in my power to make this the BEST Bloodborne adaptation possible. Not only is it my favourite game ever made but I know how truly passionate the fans of this game are and how much hunger they have for more of it.
I can’t share much about the project right now but man does it feel good to let you all know it’s happening!
HO-LY SHIT
You know what, if that’s what gets us more Bloodborne, fine. Has anyone watched any of Jacksepticeye’s short films? I don’t really know anything about him other than that he’s a videogames youtuber
I wasn’t even aware he made short films! I guess his credentials are the he seems to be a die hard bloodborne fan? Maybe some producer experience?
What caught my attention is that Lyrical animation is a super recently established studio, (like, late 2025 recent) so no way to judge their work ; and sony pictures animation is not mentioned, but it would be great if some talent from the sony animation studio could get attached to this project in some way.
tbh, I don’t have the highest expectations for this. It must be suuuuper early in developement so we’ll have to wait a while and see what transpires.
Neither was I until I checked his wikipedia page! I had actually thought for a moment that he was the one that had done Iron Lung recently. I haven’t seen it, but I had heard that it was generally pretty solid (and not just in a good for a videogame adaption or good for being made by a youtuber sense, just actually good) and figured that that actually was a decent credential to make a Bloodborne one. I was, of course, totally wrong, because that was Markiplier
Oh right… I didn’t see the movie either but apparently Markiplier wrote, edited and directed thar film (!!!).
From what I gathrered, in Jacksepticeye’s case he has just a producer role, which is kinda nebulous but does get a say in the script and the creative direction, (I think it will be like an overseer role ) ultimately having other more experienced people on board as well.
I watched the announcement video of his and apparently this has been in the talks for 1.5 - 2 years aprox, but he spoke of the work in future tense so, pre production has probably no even started yet. I think it will be a long time before we see or hear anything more about it.
Well while I have no idea about Jack specifically, it is nice to know that there’s someone on board who is genuinely passionate about the material
I highly suspect that we’ll hear more some time around the release of Alex Garland’s Elden Ring movie