How old is Kane Parsons? A24 drops ‘Backrooms’ trailer from one of its youngest directors
Better known as 'Kane Pixels,' YouTuber and British-American filmmaker Kane Parsons became the youngest director in A24 films' history with his major motion picture, 'The Backrooms.' With the trailer dropping earlier on Tuesday, all eyes are on Parsons' age after his YouTube series is now a full-fledged theatre feature. Born in 2005, Parsons is 20 years old, and his original YT series began as a small project in 2022, when he was still a teenager.
For those unaware, 'The Backrooms' was somewhat of a modern-day urban legend after claims that they were a dimension between dimensions discovered by accident. This spawned a bunch of theories on the internet, making it a space for unsettling empty mazes and unexplained creatures. Now, the theory that Parsons made a series on is a major film directed by the YouTuber himself. The film was written by Will Soodik and is slated for release on May 29. For now, much of the storyline remains vague, but it is compelling enough to make audiences give it a whirl.
On the movie front, A24 released an unsettling trailer for 'The Backrooms.' It follows the story of a furniture store owner, Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who discovers an entry into one of the Backrooms in a wall of his building that mysteriously appears. He talks about the phenomenon to his therapist (Renate Reinsve) and reveals that it includes objects from different points in time. "I found a place," Ejiofor's Clark explains to his therapist, acknowledging that his story sounds at best like the product of a creative writing class. "I know how this sounds, but you've got to understand, it's massive in there," he says.
The clip shows Ejiofor and a group of people filming in the Backrooms and encountering unseen threats. Reinsve's character gets involved and is seen bloodied in one of the rooms as major terrors loom. Also starring are Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell, and Avan Jogia. Speaking about the project in an interview with Dazed, Parsons revealed that while he couldn't give too much away from the project, he said that it would build upon the world created in his YouTube series. "The Backrooms is not – and never has been – something that I think about as an internet trend or a meme. It's just a story I genuinely care about, with characters I genuinely care about."
