JackSepticEye Explains Role on the Bloodborne Movie

Seán McLoughlin, amended known arsenic YouTuber JackSepticEye, is understandably cautious astir revealing details of the upcoming Bloodborne animated movie he’s producing. We spoke to JackSepticEye connected the reddish carpet of the 2026 Gaming BAFTA awards and pressed for arsenic overmuch info arsenic we could.

Earlier this month, Sony Pictures announced an R-rated animated diagnostic movie based connected the FromSoftware masterpiece, Bloodborne. While nary crippled details were revealed, it is expected that the movie volition travel a huntsman battling beasts successful the metropolis of Yharnam. It's produced by PlayStation Productions, Lyrical Animation, and JackSepticEye. Lyrical Media is co-financing the Bloodborne movie with Sony Pictures.

JackSepticEye's relation connected the task came arsenic a astonishment to many, but, helium told IGN, he's agelong been a instrumentality of animation, and of people helium has a agelong past with Bloodborne itself.

“I grew up watching Dragon Ball,” JackSepticEye told IGN, erstwhile asked astir the animation that made him autumn successful emotion with the medium. “You're fortunate if thing happens successful an occurrence of that. It's each inactive frames fractional the time. I'd spell each the mode backmost to watching Spider-Man and the Batman animated amusement erstwhile I was a kid and conscionable falling successful emotion with those things. Then increasing up and watching anime — that's successful the coolest spot it's ever been.”

When asked what’s connected the moodboard for the Bloodborne adaptation, helium replied: “Anything that gets america arsenic adjacent to the temper and consciousness of the game. I'm not nether immoderate illusions that we should alteration excessively galore things oregon messiness worldly up. It's my occupation to support it arsenic adjacent to the crippled arsenic we tin and support it successful that code and that vibe and atmosphere.” He added: “The ambiance of those games is conscionable 2nd to none.”

Though galore fans person been blessed to perceive immoderate quality of an Bloodborne adaptation astatine all, not everyone has been kind. “I've seen each the memes and they’re hilarious wherever radical are posting pictures of me, similar ruining the franchise and everything," JackSepticEye said. "I deliberation they're truly funny, but it conscionable shows however into Bloodborne they are, however passionate they are."

“I'm approaching it arsenic a instrumentality of it, not arsenic similar I privation to marque a happening to marque money," helium continued. "That’s not my extremity end astatine all. And I cognize the fans retired determination are precise passionate astir Bloodborne… It's 1 of those games that adjacent if it's not your favourite game, if idiosyncratic other said it, you're like, ‘Yeah, that makes sense.’”

JackSepticEye precocious appeared successful Iron Lung, from chap YouTuber Markiplier, a movie which defied the likelihood of its autarkic accumulation fund and earning $21.5 cardinal globally.

We asked if Mark had been successful interaction to connection immoderate proposal connected the project. “No. Mark doesn't truly scope retired to radical that often," JackSepticEye explained. "He kinda stays successful his ain world.”

JackSepticEye’s ambitions widen to, eventually, adjacent much crippled adaptations aft Bloodborne. “My person Alanah [Pearce] conscionable announced Charred Pictures that she's doing a batch of adaptations with. I'm helping nutrient a movie that she co-wrote, which is not a video crippled adaptation, but that's our extremity arsenic good is to bash much worldly together. Pick our favourite games. See who wants to marque stuff.”

One video crippled adaptation that got distant from JackSepticEye was Soma. He's spoken astir the Soma animated amusement falling done before, but told IGN now: “I reached retired to the Soma guys a portion backmost and I wanted to bash thing with that, but timelines conscionable didn't adhd up and they conscionable announced their caller game. It's 1 of those stories wherever I'm like, 'This is truthful perfect.' Maybe it tin lone beryllium successful a crippled the mode it is, but I'm conscionable similar much radical request to cognize what Soma is, the morals and the motivation quandaries.”

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Mat Jones is simply a Senior Social Producer for IGN based retired of London, UK