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Slender Man Movie is Coming Soon

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Screen Gems is developing a Slender Man movie.

The Internet has a way of connecting the world in a unique and often times strange ways. Information now spreads at the speed of retweets and underneath the niceties of the inter-webs are a dark world of “Creepypasta’s” – modern day urban legends spreading through the Internet instead of word of mouth.

Even for those who have not read a single Wiki-legend, Slender Man is one of the most popular. Since the urban legend’s start, Slender Man has gained a huge larger than life persona. And now Hollywood is looking to take advantage of the Creepypasta and turn it into a movie, according to ComicBook.com

The disturbing story of an abnormally tall, featureless creature was created by Erik Knudsen on the Something Awful forum back in 2009. As part of a competition to make everyday photographs look supernatural, Knudsen also added text to his submission, providing a backstory to the Slender Man.

Talking to slenderman235, Knudsen spoke of his surprise at the spread of the story. He said:

“I didn’t expect it to move beyond the SA forums. And when it did, I found it interesting to watch as sort of an accelerated version of an urban legend. It differs from the prior concept of the urban legend in that it is on the Internet, and this both helps and harms the status of the Slender Man as one.”

Knudsen said he’s afraid of Hollywood trying to creating a movie based around Slender Man saying that he would “hate for something to come out and just be kinda conventional.”

It’s important to point out that a 12-year-old girl was stabbed 19 times by 12-year-old Morgan Geyser and 12-year-old Anissa Weier June 5, 2014, in Waukesh, Wisconsin for “Slenderman”. When analyzed by a psychiatrist after the attempted murder the physician had this to say about the young girls’ obsession with Slender Man:

Slender Man

As for Slender Man, she idolizes and fears him, and worries that if she angers him, he will hurt her family.

Production on the Slender Man movie is expected to begin in fall 2016, with a release in the fall of 2017.

Via ComicBook.com

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