Age: 67
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Charles Stuart Kaufman (born November 19, 1958) is an American filmmaker and novelist. He wrote the films Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). He both wrote and directed the films Synecdoche, New York (2008), Anomalisa (2015), and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). In 2020, Kaufman made his literary debut with the release of his first novel, Antkind. One of the most celebrated screenwriters of his era, Kaufman has received an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Independent Spirit Awards, and a Writers Guild of America Award. Film critic Roger Ebert called Synecdoche, New York "the best movie of the decade" in 2009. Three of Kaufman's scripts appear in the Writers Guild of America's list of the 101 greatest movie screenplays ever written.
The fluorescent hum never stops. Neither do the things that hunt within these endless corridors of peeling wallpaper and forgotten spaces. When a second breach tears open between worlds, survivors from the first incursion must confront an unbearable truth: escape was never the endgame. The backrooms are expanding. Growing. Evolving into something far more sentient and sinister than anyone dared imagine. Trapped deeper than before, a fractured group of explorers discovers that the architecture itself is alive—reshaping, learning, hunting. Every doorway becomes a gamble. Every shadow holds teeth. As reality fractures further, they realize the entities dwelling in these spaces aren't monsters to be avoided. They're architects. And humanity has been inside their design all along. Survival demands impossible choices. Trust shatters. Alliances crumble. In the end, some discoveries cannot be undone.
