Markiplier is making a feature film adaptation of a $6 horror indie game where you pilot a windowless submarine under an ocean of blood

pcgamer.com:

Longtime YouTuber Mark «Markiplier» Fischbach has revealed that he is directing and starring in an adaptation of Iron Lung(opens in new tab), last year's breakout indie horror game from Dusk developer David Szymanski. Markiplier has uploaded a teaser trailer of the project to his YouTube channel(opens in new tab).

Szymanski's most famous creation, Dusk(opens in new tab), is one of the tent pole entries of the recent retro shooter renaissance. 2022's Iron Lung, meanwhile, shares a similar retro rendering aesthetic but goes for more of a «claustrophobic horror» vibe than a «sliding around at 60mph serving both barrels to cultists» one. You play as the sole crewmember of the titular Iron Lung, a windowless submarine under an ocean of blood. You have to navigate this alien seafloor with the help of various analogue instruments and a grainy, black and white camera mounted to the exterior of the sub while something stirs out there in the rusty depths.

Markiplier, meanwhile, uploaded a full let's play(opens in new tab) of the game last year. If the fact that he's making a movie out of the thing didn't clue you in, the YouTuber loved it, declaring, «That was excellent, that was incredible; I really loved that experience» at the end of the playthrough and praising Iron Lung's pervasive sense of dread. This isn't Markiplier's first experiment with more narrative, cinematic content either—he's previously produced the series "In Space with Markiplier(opens in new tab)."

The movie's teaser begins with a shot of the chunky, low-fi interior of the in-game submarine while a voice crackles through on a loudspeaker describing the hull integrity of the submarine and conditions outside. It cants to the side, as if it were sinking, before