Supermassive’s hit video game Until Dawn is celebrating its 10th anniversary next year, and The Hollywood Reporter reports today that a movie adaptation is on the way!
David F. Sandberg, who directed Lights Out and Annabelle Creation before helming the two Shazam movies, will be seated in the director’s chair for the Until Dawn movie.
Blair Butler (Sony’s The Invitation) wrote the original draft of the screenplay, and THR notes that Gary Dauberman (IT, Salem’s Lot) is now working on the script.
THR previews, “The logline for the feature adaptation is kept deep inside the caves but Screen Gems is describing it as R-rated love letter to the horror genre, centering on an ensemble cast.”
Until Dawn centers around a group of eight teenagers who decide to vacation for a night in a cabin on the fictional Blackwood Mountain, exactly one year after the disappearance of two girls, the twin sisters of a member of their group. Shortly after arriving, the gang find themselves under attack by a psychopath, and must attempt to survive until sunrise.
Throughout the adventure, players alternate between all eight characters, making critical decisions as the story advances which drastically affects the game’s outcome, leading to hundreds of different scenarios.
The Until Dawn movie is being made by Screen Gems and PlayStation Productions.
Producers include Dauberman, Sandberg and Lotta Losten, as well as Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment, and PlayStation Productions’ Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan.
The success of Until Dawn led Supermassive Games to create The Dark Pictures Anthology, an anthology series of horror video games with a similar interactive approach.
Supermassive was also behind the slasher video game The Quarry.
‘Until Dawn’
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