David F. Sandberg, the director behind the two Shazam! films and Annabelle: Creation, is teaming up once again with Annabelle writer, Gary Dauberman, to adapt the 2015 PlayStation horror video game Until Dawn.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sandberg has signed on with Screen Gems and PlayStation Productions (both owned by Sony) to direct the film, with Daubman, whose previous credits also include It, The Nun, and the upcoming live-action Gargoyles series, taking a pass on a script written by Blair Butler.
Until Dawn follows eight people trying to stay alive on Blackwood Mountain, a place they revisit after two of their friends died there the year before. The player can control all eight people in the game, and all eight have the potential to die as play unfolds, depending on what decisions the player makes. In the game, Rami Malek (pictured above), Hayden Panettiere, Meaghan Martin, Brett Dalton, Jordan Fisher, Nichole Bloom, and Peter Stormare voice-acted and provided motion capture for their characters. It received high critical praise and was nominated for several gaming awards, including a British Academy Games Awards win for best original property.
We don’t know much about the movie adaptation yet, other than it will be an “R-rated love letter to the horror genre,” according to THR, and that it will have an ensemble cast. We also don’t know if any of the actors in the video game will reprise their roles in the film, but we’ll likely get some casting news once the project gears up to start filming.
