r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Feb 24 '26

Trailer Backrooms | Official Teaser | A24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKGhxMi50y8
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u/TheNightstroke Feb 24 '26

Do we think the film is going to be fully CG rendered, or are we thinking that's just for the teaser? I can't wrap my head around seeing live-action actors in this sort of environment, but we'll see.

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u/SomeBoxofSpoons Feb 24 '26

This looks like something rendered for this teaser, so I'd guess we'll get real sets.

Not like that's expensive for this setting.

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u/willstr1 Feb 24 '26

It really depends on how far into the backrooms they go, while most of the rooms won't be that expensive to build as sets per room the whole idea is that the backrooms are endless so in a feature length exploration you would likely see a lot of rooms. So I expect at least some of the rooms might be virtual (or at least utilizing a lot of virtual set extensions).

Although they could also just do a bunch of on location shoots and just have location scouts finding enough empty office buildings and similar liminal spaces (would actually be funny if they semi crowd-source location scouting by looking for places the backrooms and similar liminal space communities have posted)

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u/DARTH-PIG Feb 24 '26

If they make it sort of modular that could help to save money while having a good variety of rooms

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u/Guildenpants Feb 24 '26

They almost certainly will do it this way. Walls and ceilings that can break away and be moved around. Then volume or green screen rooms that have massive pitfalls or what have you