WME Signs Evan Royalty, Top SCP YouTube Creator
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- WME signed Evan Muir (a.k.a. Evan Royalty), a filmmaker, writer, director and digital creator, aiming to expand his footprint across film, TV, and beyond while developing original IP and franchise opportunities.
- Evan Royalty is one of the defining filmmakers behind YouTube's SCP phenomenon — sci-fi horror shorts about the SCP Foundation, a fictional secret organization that covertly protects humanity from malevolent entities; the lore originated as a creepypasta on 4chan, paralleling the rise of Kane Parsons' Backrooms.
- Muir has built the largest and most engaged audience of any cinematic SCP creator through adaptations including SCP: First Contact, SCP: Dollhouse, and SCP: Overlord, amassing more than 779,000 subscribers and nearly 70 million lifetime views since launching his YouTube channel in 2012.
- The signing follows a separate announcement that Roy Lee and Steven Schneider will produce a new V/H/S anthology film set within the SCP universe, underscoring Hollywood's broader scramble for creator-driven horror IP.
- The V/H/S deal marks the SCP Foundation's path from a 4chan creepypasta to a major film franchise — a trajectory that mirrors Backrooms, another 4chan-originated horror story that spawned a viral YouTube adaptation.
Why it matters: WME just signed the largest cinematic SCP creator on YouTube — 779,000 subscribers and nearly 70 million lifetime views — at the exact moment Roy Lee and Steven Schneider are developing a V/H/S anthology set in the same universe. The deal positions WME at the front of a creator-to-franchise pipeline for one of horror's fastest-moving online mythologies.
