By JESSICA SCHIEBER
The famous YouTuber Markiplier is creating a movie that is set to release Jan 31.
This movie is a Sci-fi horror movie “Iron Lung” to promote this movie he is hosting a massive blood drive. This will happen during the premiere weekend of his movie.
This is to help boost blood supplies and he is targeting a potential world record.
Markiplier is hoping to break the record of most blood donations in a single day.
“Iron Lung” is set to release on Jan. 30 and is an adaptation of the hit indie hoor game of the same name.
According to Virginia Glaze in Dexerto blood is a central facet of both the game and the film. Markiplier surmises that he may have broken the world record for most fake blood ever used in a movie, boasting that he needed over 80,000 gallons of the stuff during production.
Certain theaters showing “Iron Lung” across the United States are holding blood drives to help ease the current blood shortage and break another world record for a good cause.
The Red Cross has reported a severe blood shortage with a 35% decrease in supply as hospital demand has skyrocketed this January.
The Intense winter weather combined with seasonal illnesses have put a significant strain on the system.
Markiplier is aiming to ease this shortage with the blood drives around the theaters.
The current number of blood donations given in a single day is at 37,018 donations.
To donate for the blood drive viewers will have to be at least 16 years old and 110-135 pounds depending on local requirements.
You will also have to bring your ID and stay hydrated before donating.
Donors must stay healthy at the time of donating and be thoroughly nourished.
You do not have to be watching the movie to go and donate to the cause, but it is recommended to donate prior to sitting down in the theater if you plan to watch.
Markiplier is not only known for his status as an internet star but also for using his fame in a positive manner.
He and his fans have donated thousands of dollars to nonprofit organizations.
Ironlung.com has a list of all participating theaters.
This website also give the general requirements of donating and there is an eligiblity review.
For those who are 16 and looking to donate you will need to have a parents permission to do so.
Markiplier is 36 years old and his legal name is Mark Edward Fischbach.
He became well known for his “Let’s play” video he created on YouTube which often featured inde horror games, something he has no shortage of knowledge and passion about.
Markiplier has also created a clothing brand called Cloak.
According to IndieWire more than 2,500 screens and shows are already sold out.
Markiplier has self-distributed the movie and has made no paid marketing campaign for it.
Markiplier has about 38 million YouTube subscribers and has been building his audience for over a decade.
He has made large-scale interactive series for YouTube Originals and he wrtes, directs, edits, produces, finances and stars in much of his own work.
Markiplier has been moving toward longer-form storytelling for years.
His audience didn’t show up for “Iron Lung” because he just decided to ask them to, but because they have watched him grow for more than a decade.
Markiplier had apprached the game’s creator, David Szymanski, and shortly after that he began to develop “Iron Lung” in the later half of 2022.
It was a 35 day SAG low-budget shoot in spring of 2023. The rather large gap between postproduction and debut is because Markiplier did almost everything by himself.
“I don’t think that I made it any more efficient,” Markiplier said to Indie Wire. “The skills I’ve built in the past few years of doing this dwarfed the entirety of my time on YouTube.”
Markiplier said that he has sold to his audience before and he knew that he could get people to show up.
Markiplier made the annoucement of the movie on his YouTube channel and the fans will do the rest. He knows what his fans are capable of.