A viral piece of content appears to be the next to head to the big screen in multiple formats. According to Variety, a Skibidi Toilet movie and TV show are in the works from former Paramount Pictures president Adam Goodman and director Michael Bay.
Skibidi Toilet has blown up in internet meme culture after debuting as a series of shorts from YouTuber Alexey Gerasimov. The first episodes lasted just seconds with nothing really behind it before expanding into a full series that depicts human-headed toilets in a conflict with humanoids.
In talking with Variety, Goodman talked about the show’s growth from a “silly meme” to something deeper than that.
“It started as a really wacky, crazy, fun inspired thing and has now turned into something that has episodes and lore and cliffhangers,” Goodman said.
As far as the growth from just over 1 million subscribers to over 43 million in a little over a year, Goodman credits Gerasimov’s passion for creation and his project.
“[He] is someone who is a massive studio of cinema and television and animation and franchise, and we encouraged him — and the encouragement comes from his massive, massive audience — to tell stories, and to look at this as though he’s building something that could be the next Transformers or could be the next Marvel’s Universe,” Goodman said.
As far as the plans for a Skibidi Toilet movie and/or TV show, Goodman said it’s not the “be all, end all” for the series. However, it’s part of the plans for the franchise moving forward.
“This lends itself, very well [to traditional media],” Goodman said. “I will say that Michael [Bay] and Jeffrey Beecroft, his long-time production designer and colleague that has worked on all of his movies, have been working very closely with Alexey to design art, to start to really professionalize the back engine of this to make sure that if we every decide to go film or television that this is kind of lifted beyond the resources that creators have on the internet.
“We are absolutely in talks right now, both on the television side and the earliest conversations right now on the film side, but it’s not a be all, end all for us. We want to make sure that we’re able to support all the other business that have been built.”
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