Mark 'Markiplier' Fischbach as Simon 'The Convict'
Iron Lung (2026) dir. Mark 'Markiplier' Fischbach
”I asked ChatGPT” well I asked Simon The Butcher and he said the skeleton moved.
ambitious indie project this, surprise box-office hit that, iron lung (production budget: $3mil) is the 'someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this, my family is dying' tweet.
- set construction: $800
- cast & crew wages: $1,200 + uber eats
- fake blood (assuming generous discount on bulk purchase): $2,000,000 i am so not kidding i did the math this is nuts
- editing: average adult body-weight equivalent in monster energy drinks
update when markiplier announced he's producing the dvd/blu-ray himself i was like cool he's personally supervising the process and then he was like no i mean i'm making them myself at my house and i imagined some kind of complicated gargantuan contraption dutifully chugging along 24/7 blowing up this man's electricity bill and then he was like
anyway if you buy an iron lung dvd/blu-ray: it was made on a printer-sized machine. at markiplier's house.
Markiplier does on the surface seem like an odd choice for directing and starring in a serious scifi horror movie, but in terms of getting scared at a computer screen and dying badly in space, his resume is remarkably stacked.
My captain told me her convicts kept disappearing in the blood ocean so I asked how many convicts she has and she said she just goes to the prison and gets a new convict afterwards so I said it sounds like she’s just feeding convicts to the blood ocean and then she started crying.
