Bloodborne movie with Jacksepticeye is real and not a late April Fools’ joke

A second FromSoftware movie adaptation is in the works, but it’s unclear how involved the developer actually is with its production.

It is shameful the way Bloodborne has been thoroughly ignored by Sony, since its 2015 launch on PlayStation 4. Despite calls for a PlayStation 5 remake, remaster, PC port, or just a simple update that bumps up the frame rate, Sony’s done nothing with Bloodborne in all that time.

Pitches for new Bloodborne projects, both internally and from other studios, were reportedly rejected, and it’s widely presumed this is because Sony doesn’t want to touch Bloodborne without developer FromSoftware’s approval.

So, it’s safe to say Bloodborne fans have been thrown for a loop now that Sony has casually announced it’s turning the game into a feature length movie.

The project was confirmed during Sony’s recent CinemaCon presentation, albeit with no trailer or promotional images. However, it will be an animated movie rather than live action and promises to be R-rated.

For context, an R-rating is one of the highest age ratings a movie can receive in the US and is reserved for movies with adult content that isn’t suited for anyone under the age of 17. So, the UK equivalent would be an age rating of 18.

This is an early, positive sign considering anything less than that would mean Bloodborne’s gothic horror aesthetic, disturbing monster designs, and copious bloody violence would risk being watered down.

What’s far more surprising, though, is that Seán William McLoughlin, better known as Irish YouTuber Jacksepticeye, has been brought on as a producer.

Jacksepticeye has no special ties to FromSoftware, Sony, or Bloodborne itself, with his only real credential (besides being famous) being that he’s a big fan of the game.

However, his involvement is likely a response to the success of Iron Lung, another video game to movie adaptation, which was spearheaded by YouTuber Markiplier (in which Jacksepticeye makes a cameo).

Markiplier personally directed, wrote, and starred in Iron Lung whereas Jacksepticeye is only listed as a producer on the Bloodborne movie. Currently his only experience of moviemaking is a couple of short films.

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‘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,’ he wrote in a Reddit post.

The response from fans seems to be a mix of excitement and confusion, with plenty joking that it’s a late April Fools’ joke, as well as hope that this will be what finally leads to a remaster or remake.

We’d be far more interested to know how much involvement FromSoftware itself has with the movie as well as who is actually directing it, but nothing like that has been announced yet.

The live action Elden Ring movie is already looking promising based on the leaked set design, with director Alex Holland being a self-described fan of the original game. Although making a movie out of any From game, given their opaque storytelling, seems an inherently risky prospect.

And in any case, being authentic to the source material doesn’t guarantee a good film, as the The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ably proved.

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