Until Dawn pokes fun at schlocky horror movies, so it’ll be interesting to see Sony’s approach for the game’s official movie adaptation. That’s no longer just an idea that’s floating around by the way: shooting started this week for the film. Asad Qizilbash, head of PS Productions, posted a photo from the set, confirming the project is officially underway.
The film’s being directed by David F. Sandberg of Lights Out and Shazam fame. Anabelle writer Gary Dauberman will produce, while Peter Stormare will reprise his role from the game as Dr Hill. He’ll be flanked by a cast including Maia Mitchell, Belmont Cameli, Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Odessa A’zion, and Ji-young Yoo.
“Capturing the essence of the game but with new characters, [the movie] serves as a great stand-alone introduction to the world for the newcomer as well as offers something new that the fans of the game will enjoy,” Sandberg told The Hollywood Reporter late last week.
Remember, a full-scale remake of Until Dawn is also slated to release on the PS5 later this year.
[source twitter.com, via hollywoodreporter.com, videogameschronicle.com]
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Keep the budget under 20 mil like Neon/A24 and it'll have good chances of success.
The interactivity of the game is what made the game interesting. The story was pretty standard. I liked the game, it was decent, but a film of it? B movie at best. I wish them good luck.
Loved the game but you making the choices about who lives or dies has more impact than a movie. Hope this will be good fun and wish them well.
Horror movies are highly profitable, so with fans of the game as well as horror fan, this movie could be their biggest film when it comes to profit vs budget. I guessing it'll release October 2025 for Halloween.
It's already a movie this is a waste of time 😅
I wonder which ending they'll go for? Probably the one where the blonde is the only one still alive if they adhere to Slasher tropes.
Do we know if the movie is telling a particular through-line from the game, or is that just an assumption that everyone is making? It strikes me that they could borrow the conceit of the Butterfly Effect movies and give one of the characters the ability to do-over their decisions, leading to progressively worse and worse outcomes.
@riceNpea Deleted my response when I realized I was essentially just restating what you already said. I agree entirely.
@Tielo yes the choices made it. now if it was a bandersnatch type experience i could understand it
Based on the leak, they didn't include Wendigos.
Bummer
@Ralizah yeah. It's an odd choice for a film considering the game was already filmic and not that interesting. Without the gameplay elements the story is straight-to-DVD standard.
@StrickenBiged urgh, I hope not. Not more multiverse-type film nonsense full of McGuffins and Deux Ex Machina, it's lazy.
@riceNpea Pretty much.
The thing with games --> movies is that you can sometimes view that from an interesting new angle, given the change in mediums, but Until Dawn is literally just emulating bad horror movies, so I'm not really sure what's to be gained there. The presentation was the only other interesting aspect of that, and you lose that completely with a straight live-action film adaptation.
Lights Out, Shazam, and Anabelle all sucked. Not much hope with the people behind it.
@Almost_Ghostly Lights Out and Anabelle Creation was solid horror movies. Shazam 1 was okay, don't know about Shazam 2. I have good hope this adaptation will do well.
@riceNpea I'm decidedly not suggesting multi-verse. I'm suggesting time-manipulation. In a decent writer's hands that could work for adapting a game like this where the fun comes from seeing the different ripple effects of your choices. I'm sure someone smarter than me could find a way to do it intelligently, like how Cabin in the Woods cleverly messed with the audience's expectations. There'd be no need for McGuffins or Deus Ex Machina either, because the protagonist could learn through trial and error and application of intelligence!
@StrickenBiged time-manipulation is as bad as multiverse, the two are practically the same in (theoretical) practice. If you're manipulating time, you changing to a new timeline at the point of the change, so I'm still not sure I'd want to see it. They'd have to do it in a fresh way that we haven't already been saturated with by Hollywood to stand out.
Bot seen Cabin so maybe im missing your point entirely 😊
@PuppetMaster Imo neither are even remotely close to being solid horror flicks. Not anywhere close at all.
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