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Blumhouse’s Adaptation of Gaming’s Most Popular Horror Franchise Conjures Up the Perfect Writers
Video game adaptations are all the rage these days, and that hasn’t gone unnoticed by Jason Blum and his horror juggernaut Blumhouse. As Fallout, The Last of Us, Mortal Kombat, and more find their footing with their own adaptations, Blumhouse struck gold with it’s long-gestating Five Nights at Freddy’s movies, based on the cult-favorite video game series of the same name. Even despite abysmal reviews, both the original film and its sequel proved to be colossal successes, pulling in huge box office and streaming numbers. Now, Blumhouse hopes to replicate that success with a movie based on the most popular horror video game around right now, Dead by Daylight, which has taken a big step forward.
A new report has confirmed that Blumhouse’s Dead by Daylight movie has found not one, but two writers to bring the Entity’s reign of terror to life. Fans of the long-running Conjuring universe will certainly be pleased, as the person who helped create that decade-defining horror saga, David Leslie Johnston-McGoldrick, is one of the writers on board. Johnson-McGoldrick will also be working with another recent star in the horror space, Alexandre Aja, fresh off of the news that the Under Paris filmmaker is developing a sequel to the sharksploitation hit. Jason Blum himself endorsed the pair as the perfect writers for the project with the following statement:
“What David and Alexandre bring to Dead by Daylight is a rare balance of character driven storytelling and relentless genre intensity. Drawing from survival horror and psychological terror, their work establishes a world where fear is not just experienced, but earned. It is a cinematic blueprint designed to attract a director who can elevate that vision through performance and scale.”
‘Dead by Daylight’ Is a Giant, Living Tribute to Horror
Come this June, Dead by Daylight will have turned 10 years old, and the game still has new regular updates and an active playerbase to this very day. Dead by Daylight is a multiplayer horror game that pits 4 players against 1 other, with the team of four being a group of survivors trying to escape a player-controlled serial killer. While the game has a regular cast of original and terrifying killers, the game has since crossed over with a large variety of horror franchises, including Saw, Stranger Things, Nightmare on Elm Street, and even other video games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill. The upcoming Blumhouse movie will likely not incorporate the crossover characters due to rights issues, but the horror giant does have access to some figures in the game, like Michael Myers from Halloween and Springtrap from Five Nights at Freddy’s, so who knows who might be lurking in the shadows?
Blumhouse’s Dead by Daylight movie is now in development. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
- Release Date
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October 27, 2023
- Runtime
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109 Minutes
- Director
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Emma Tammi
- Writers
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Scott Cawthon, Seth Cuddeback, Emma Tammi
- Franchise(s)
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Five Nights at Freddy’s