Sony’s TriStar Pictures has officially acquired the movie rights to Cartoon Cat, the terrifying viral cryptid that has haunted the internet for years. The studio secured the IP in a massive pre-emptive deal, proving that online creepypastas are Hollywood's newest goldmine.
Created by horror artist Trevor Henderson, Cartoon Cat isn't your average cartoon. The entity is described as an "ancient hollow rot" that maliciously uses our collective nostalgia for 1930s rubber-hose animation as a gateway to manifest in the real world, bringing pure chaos and violence with it.
This marks Henderson's second major studio deal in just two weeks, following a fierce five-studio bidding war for his other famous creation, Siren Head, which was snagged by Warner Bros. Pictures (with Zach Cregger and Brian Duffield writing). Internet horror has officially gone mainstream.