“I try to always keep my enthusiasm tempered and realistic. No official offers have been made and Auerbach understands the magnitude of the process. The novel was published in July 2012.Ĭurrently, Middlemas is shopping the novel around Hollywood. In a month, over $15,000 was raised for production, over ten times the project’s initial goal of $1,500. In April 2012, Auerbach launched a Kickstarter campaign to produce Penpal, a novelization of his story. Currently, “ Balloons” and the story’s final segment, “ Friends,” are in the subreddit’s top ten most-viewed links. “Balloons,” the second segment, won the subreddit’s NoSleep Writing Contest for October 2011. It ended on a cliffhanger when the perpetrator framed Auerbach as a runaway.Īuerbach posted five additional segments that continued his story. The story detailed Auerbach’s childhood, when unknown forces removed him from his bedroom and placed him into the woods behind his house. He posted his story “ Footsteps,” which immediately became a community favorite.
The success story of 1000Vultures, whose real name is Dathan Auerbach, began in September 2011 in r/nosleep, a subreddit that collects original scary stories.
“I never anticipated things getting this far, and I haven’t forgotten for a second that the people of Reddit are who made this possible,” he wrote. Middlemas won an Oscar for his documentary Undefeated. 19, redditor 1000Vultures announced that a six-part story he submitted to the subreddit r/nosleep had attracted the attention of film producer Rich Middlemas. It looks like James Erwin and Alexander Rhodes aren’t the only redditors who have attracted the attention of film producers.
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