PlayStation horror Until Dawn's live-action movie hits cinemas next April
Sony’s live-action movie adaptation of developer Supermassive’s acclaimed PS4 cinematic horror game Until Dawn is set to hit the big screen on 25th April next year.
An Until Dawn movie was officially announced back in January, with Shazam and Lights Out director David F. Sandberg helming the production based on a script by Blair Butler and It, Annabelle, and The Nun scribe Gary Dauberman. It stars Ella Rubin (The Idea of You), Michael Cimino (Love Victor), Ji-young Yoo (Expats), Odessa A’zion (Hellraiser), Maia Mitchell, and Peter Stormare – who’ll be reprising his role as psychiatrist Dr Hill from the game.
An Until Dawn movie has, admittedly, bit of a strange proposition from the start, given the whole point of Supermassive’s original game (which released for PS4 back in 2015) was to let players live out their own trope-y teen slasher movie, navigating a whole bunch of classic genre conventions to see who lives and dies based on their choices. So an Until Dawn movie shorn of the interactive bits would largely just be a slightly naff slasher film.
Still, Sony’s big screen adaptation – previously described as an “R-rated love letter to the horror genre” – was confirmed to have wrapped filming earlier this month, and now Deadline reports it’s set to hit cinemas on 25th April next year.
