YouTuber Jacksepticeye has admitted his involvement with the just-announced Bloodborne animated movie comes as a surprise, but has insisted he’s taking his producer role incredibly seriously, and will “fight so hard to make this amazing.”
Earlier this week, Sony Pictures announced an R-rated animated feature film based on the FromSoftware masterpiece, Bloodborne. While no details on the plot were revealed, it is expected that the movie will follow a hunter battling beasts in the city of Yharnam.
The Bloodborne movie is produced by PlayStation Productions, Lyrical Animation, and YouTuber and gamer Seán McLoughlin, aka JackSepticEye. Lyrical Media is co-financing the Bloodborne movie with Sony Pictures.
Now, in a follow-up video, JackSepticEye moved to reassure fans that he was taking the job incredibly seriously, and would do everything in his power to make the Bloodborne movie a success.
“That is literally a dream come true for me,” he said. “It’s the biggest thing that I’ve ever been able to announce as part of my YouTube channel, as part of my career. I live and breathe FromSoftware games, but Bloodborne specifically is my top tier, highest echelon of game. I have a tattoo of the Hunter’s Mark on my body. I have giant statues of the Hunter and Eileen [the Crow] behind me. I have a tiny lamp of the messengers behind me, because I absolutely adore this franchise. Bloodborne is like the thing that I wake up and play video games for. It is the top of the top.”
“It’s the honor of my life to be able to say something about this,” he continued. “To be related to anything Bloodborne is just the coolest thing that I’ve ever been able to do. And I’ve done a lot of cool stuff in my career as a YouTuber, but this I think just takes the cake. This is the coolest thing that I’ve ever been able to announce that I’m part of.
“I’m so passionate about anything FromSoftware related in general, but Bloodborne specifically is like the thing that I am most passionate about when it comes to gaming. That’s the thing that I am going to pour all of my passion, my energy, and my soul into to try and make this as good as possible. I am going to fight so hard to make this amazing.
“I know a lot of you are going to be surprised to hear that my name is attached to this thing. Again, I’m a producer. I’m not the writer or director of this. That stuff will come out later about who’s involved. But as the producer of it, whatever is within my power to be able to do, I will do it. I will fight tooth and nail to make this thing the best it possibly can be from my standpoint. I assure you. I promise you. I’m not going into this and taking it lightly. I know what an absolute gigantic honor it is. No one knows that better than I do. Again, I’m trying to express how much I care about this. I’m trying to express how passionate I am about it. I don’t know if it’s coming across or if it just sounds like words, but I really, really am. This is something that I’m going to pour everything I have into.
“I feel like this is what I was put on this Earth to do. This is what my north star is. This is what everything I’ve been doing has led towards, to try and get to this place. And I’m very serious about filmmaking. I’m very serious about movies in general. I absolutely adore the medium and I love gaming and these are the two things that I’m most passionate about in my life. So to be able to marry them together and to be able to do something with something that I’m so passionate about as my favorite game ever made. I have dozens and dozens of hours in the original PS4 version that came out and then I just went ham on the other version, and I play it at least twice a year. I live and breathe this game. I probably have a cumulative like 600 to 700 hours in it.
“I promise you I’m going to do my best, my absolute best. I’m going to put everything I have into this and try my best to make it as good as possible.”
In March 2025, Jacksepticeye revealed he spent a year working on a Soma animated show only for it to fall apart, leaving him “quite upset.”
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