It seems plenty of content creators have been making their break beyond YouTube in a meaningful way, from building their channel into a media empire to full-on becoming celebrities in their own rights, complete with brand deals, collectiables, and sometimes their own businesses. As of late, Sean McLoughlin, better known for online as Jacksepticeye, who also operates his own coffee maker, has been doing more acting within movies and video games. He's recently come off his time playing a role in the critically acclaimed narrative adventure, Dispatch. Now, he's entering the producer's space.
Broke by Collider, the film is called Godmother and follows Theo as she and her boyfriend Colby take a trip to a High Desert for some romance, only for things to go south when two retirees encrouch on their space "with dark designs for her."
Dee Wallace takes a starring role as one of the retirees. You likely know of her thanks to her work in E.T., the classic Steven Spielberg film, but more recently, she's been known for her role in 9-1-1 and The Bay. Besides Wallace, other actors tied to the project include Paige Evans, fresh off Revival, Cameron Cuffe, best known for Krypton, Riley Dandy, known for Christmas Bloody Christmas, and Bruce Davidson, best known for X-Men.
Behind the scenes, besides McLoughlin, who's Godmother's executive producer, John Veron inks the script alongside Alanah Pearce, who also serves as a creative producer. Craig Sherwood, Nate Lipp, and Eric Michael Kochmer are also producers.
Besides Godmother, McLoughlin's been seen in games like Poppy Playtime and Bendy and the Ink Machine. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the planned Soma animated series, which he worked 12 months on before it was scrapped, which led him to be understandably very upset. This is just the way things are, though, as based on the little that could be said from developer Frictional Games, they just couldn't spare anyone to work on other projects.
Now, among the legacy YouTube creators, McLoughlin isn't the only to take his love for horror games to the big screen. Fellow creator and former frequent collaborator, Mark Fischbach, better known as Markiplier, has entered the film space. In his case, it's Iron Lung, a sci-fi horror based on the hit indie game of the same name. He's also wearing many hats in this case, with him producing it, directing, and starring in it. Iron Lung is set to debut in theaters next month.