There's a 'Slender Man' Movie in the Works, Obviously

First reported by ComicBook.com and confirmed today by THR, Screen Gems is developing a film based on the Slender Man meme, which began life on Something Awful as an eerie series of photoshopped images in which children at play are blissfully unaware of a tall, faceless man in the background.

Slender Man offers a fascinating case study in memes, made all the more so as the fictional boogeyman wasn’t based on any pre-existing film, character or franchise. This won’t be his first movie, however, as Slender Man is the subject of Taylor Brodsky’s compelling documentary Beware the Slender Man, which premiered at SXSW and hits HBO later this year.

That documentary centers on the notorious case of two teenage girls in Wisconsin whose obsession with Slender Man drove them to attempted murder.