The original movie was released in 2006 and took heavy inspiration from the first entry in the long-running psychological horror series. A sequel, which adapted , followed in 2013 and came out earlier this year. All three movie adaptations have been panned by critics but have found a cult audience.

At the start of 2026 Christophe Gans (who directed the first and third movie) told he’d be up for working on a fourth movie and series composer Akira Yamaoka has said he wants to be adapted.

However, according to a profile done by the , producer Roy Lee’s next project is a revival. Lee is behind A Minecraft Movie , The Lego Movie, Don’t Worry Darling and many more. No further details about the reboot were shared, so it’s not known if Lee is working on a feature film or a TV series.

According to the , Lee asked Zach Cregger what video game he wanted to adapt while working on , and he’s the one who went and secured the rights. Despite backlash from gaming fans about telling an original story within the world of Cregger’s reboot has already taken more than $100million at the box office in under a week. It’s also become the highest-rated video game movie adaptation of all time.

“My only hope is that [gaming fans] will see the movie regardless of their skepticism or their disappointment that I’m not telling some of the stories that the games tell so well. [Hopefully they will feel seen when they do watch the movie and they will recognise all of the love for the games that are in this movie,” Cregger told recently. “This is not me just telling a story and slapping on it so I can get a budget. This is me telling a story. I understand the resistance, I do, because I have it myself. It is coming from a true place of love.”

The next chapter of will launch later this week. Following on from the rural Japanese setting of 2025’s takes the psychological horror to the remote Scottish island of St Amelia.

“The best instalment since the opening trilogy, ’s shift to first-person and evocative Scottish setting make for the creepiest and most involving experience of the franchise’s reboot era,” we wrote in a five-star review. “By merging the unsettling aesthetic of with the stealth-and-hide tension of , and placing it in the realm of retro folk horror, Screen Burn have crafted one of gaming’s most edge-of-your-seat experiences.”