Updated October 20, 2026
A horror game series that opens with a night home alone and later strands the player in a fire lookout tower now belongs, for screen purposes, to Scarlet Stallone. Her company, SRYN Productions, has optioned the film and TV rights to Fears to Fathom, Deadline reported on Friday, October 16. That was also the day Tulsa King came back to Paramount+ for its fourth season with her in a bigger part, and the day a USA Today video caught her father answering the nepotism question in two short sentences.
Scarlet is 24, the youngest of Sylvester Stallone’s three girls with Jennifer Flavin, and she has played Spencer, the barista who keeps Dwight Manfredi in espresso, since the first season of Tulsa King. If the name rings a bell from elsewhere, it is probably The Family Stallone, the Paramount+ reality series that filmed her heading to Oklahoma for that role.
The deal: a cult horror series from a self-taught developer
Fears to Fathom is an anthology of standalone psychological horror games made by Mukul Negi, who goes by Rayll. The brand launched in 2021, and each chapter introduces new protagonists: Home Alone (no relation to the Macaulay Culkin film), Norwood Hitchhike, Carson House, Ironbark Lookout, Woodbury Getaway and Scratch Creek. According to Deadline, Home Alone, the free first chapter, has passed 2.3 million downloads on Steam, and the paid chapters have sold more than 1.25 million copies combined. The games are pitched as inspired by real accounts, with no monsters and no invented mythology, so a producer has a stranger in a lookout tower to film instead of a creature budget, which is why this one adapts more easily than most horror games.
@scarletstallone We are so excited to announce that we’re bringing Fears to Fathom to life. See you soon. 🖤 – Team F2F
Scarlet’s statement reads like a player’s, which helps: “I’ve been playing video games since before I could read, and the first time I played Fears to Fathom, I was hooked.” Rayll, a self-taught developer who released the puzzle game Loopables in 2017 and founded Rayll Studios in 2023, told Deadline that “Scarlet immediately understood that what makes Fears to Fathom work isn’t just the scares.” Both are represented by Independent Artist Group.
An option is the first step in Hollywood development, and the paperwork says only that much: SRYN has the right to develop the property, and no studio, network, writer or release date has been announced. Plenty of options expire quietly. Still, for a young producer, a mid-size indie series with those sales figures behind it is a shrewder pick than the headlines suggest. The audience already exists, and six self-contained chapters with seven different protagonists map onto an anthology season without anyone padding them.
Back on Tulsa King, with a promotion
The same Friday, season four of Tulsa King premiered on Paramount+. Paramount’s renewal announcement on October 6 said Scarlet, “who has played Spencer on all four seasons of the series,” will be a series regular when the show moves to New York for season five; People, in its interview with her, framed the promotion as part of season four. Either way, Scarlet told the magazine that working with her father had changed their relationship: “It’s completely changed [our relationship] — a complete 180.” She also said: “Before, he was working constantly, so getting to work together for once is just an amazing opportunity,” and “We’ve grown as friends. We’ve really become friends.”
Her father has been promoting the season too. On Extra, as quoted by Complex, he said: “This season she really goes from barista to something wholly other,” and then, about what follows: “Wait till you see where that goes. Oh my God.”
“Of course it’s nepotism”
The quote everyone ran with came from that USA Today video. Asked about the criticism, Stallone did the one thing publicists usually beg against and agreed with it. “First, they go, ‘Nepotism is terrible,'” he said, and then, laughing: “Of course it’s nepotism, you idiot. That’s why we’re parents.” Parents, in his version, “let them have every advantage.” On whether the children can then hold up their end: “Can they maintain that level of excellence? That’s out of our hands.”
Famous parents usually answer this question with a story about an audition, so the candor is welcome, and his second line hands the burden straight to the work. A part on your father’s show is exactly the advantage he describes. Turning an optioned game into a series that a studio will pay for is slower, and no one at that studio has to cast her father.
My take
Most coverage this week filed both of Scarlet Stallone’s headlines under her surname. The Tulsa King promotion came through her father’s show, and he said as much on camera. The Fears to Fathom option is the one I will be watching, because she chose it as a player and no studio has bought it yet, and whatever Deadline reports next about that project will tell us more about her than Friday did.
Sources
- Deadline: Scarlet Stallone and Rayll team to develop the Fears to Fathom franchise for film and TV, Oct 16, 2026
- Scarlet Stallone on Instagram (@scarletstallone): the Fears to Fathom announcement, Oct 16, 2026
- Steam: Fears to Fathom – Scratch Creek (two playable protagonists)
- JoBlo: Scarlet Stallone takes on Fears to Fathom (game titles, download figures), Oct 2026
- Paramount+ press release: Tulsa King renewed for a fifth season; Scarlet Rose Stallone upped to series regular, Oct 6, 2026
- Fox News: Sylvester Stallone on nepotism and his daughter’s Tulsa King role, quoting a USA Today video, Oct 17, 2026
- Complex: Sylvester Stallone teases Scarlet’s bigger role on Tulsa King (Extra interview), Oct 17, 2026
- Khaleej Times, quoting People: Scarlet Stallone on working with her father, Oct 12, 2026
- Live with Kelly and Mark (official YouTube): Sylvester Stallone on Tulsa King Season 4 and working with his daughter, Oct 13, 2026
