Markiplier to direct and star in movie adaptation of horror game Iron Lung

Mark Edward “Markiplier” Fischbach, veteran YouTuber who first gained fame streaming indie horror games such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent And Five nights at Freddy’swill bring one of those horror games to the silver screen. Iron lunga 2022 underwater survival horror game set on a submarine appeared in a Let’s Play on Markiplier’s channel shortly after its debut. On Friday, deadline reported that the YouTuber will use “his own script” to adapt, direct and star in the movie version of Iron lung.

There was an unexpected hint to this news last February, when David Szymanski, the creator of Iron Lung, posted a message on Twitter about an Iron Lung movie. His description made the project sound like a dream rather than a reality; Szymanski jokingly referred to his game’s unnamed protagonist as “John Iron Lung”, stating that Markiplier would take on that lead role. The tweet also named Andrew Hulshult as the film’s composer, a news report that also turned out to be genuine. (Szymanski’s announcement that the YouTuber Jacksepticeye would appear in the film as “The Fish” has yet to be confirmed.)

Caroline Kaplan (The Plot Against America, Evidence) will star in the film, with Will Hyde and Jeff Guerrero joining Markiplier as producers. Markiplier is also financing the film himself.

The first trailer for Iron lung, embedded above, begins with an image of the submarine’s interior from the video game. Throughout the trailer, a voiceover plays on the submarine’s radio, describing the craft’s journey to “maximum depth” in its underwater journey. The shot transitions from the video game version of the submarine’s interior to a live-action recreation of the set.

Since the announcement, Szymanski has shared more details about the project on his personal Twitter, such as the fact that the movie “a separate canon” of the gameand that it will be feature length.