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Former PlayStation Dev Asks "Why Should IP Creators Keep Working For You?" After Lack Of Credit On Until Dawn Movie

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Stacey Henley

Published Apr 28, 2025

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Former 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation narrative director Kim MacAskill has taken to LinkedIn in the wake of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Until Dawn's cinematic release to ask Sony "Why should IP creators keep working for you?" after the company failed to properly crediit the team behind t🦩he Until Dawn movie, instead labelling the movie as simply "based on the Sony game".

Hannah and Beth Washington in the Until Dawn prototype, looking scared in the snow

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MacAskill also alleged that they had previously created an IP for Sony, but were told they wou🌠ld get "no royalties, no control, no ownership, no acknowledgement" of the idea, and implored Sony to reverse its position on crediting both for the Until Dawn mov🍌ie and across the company as a whole.

"No Credit. No Thanks. No Honour"

It's unclear which IP MacAskill is referring to, or if it's even one that is currently known to the world. Their time at Sony spanned multiple studios from November 2022 to June 2024, while they have previously been narrative lead at Riot Games, a senior scriptwriter on Fable (from 2020-21, so the unreleased one), a story consultant at Ubisoft, and a senior scriptwriter on the Arkham games, as well copious experience across TV🐻 and fi🍨lm since 2010.

Meanwhile, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Until Dawn movie has openꦬed to poor🐷 reviews, with many fans of the game pointing out the obvious: this is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:not an Until Dawn movie. A horror film in which a group of people must survive in an ever-changing haunted house full of horror tropes until dawn, with the timer resetting each time they perish, 168澳洲♛幸运5开奖网:resurrecting them with a 13 life limit, is a good pitch for a movie. B♒ut it's not Until Dawn.

MacAskill references Neil Druckmann, creator of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us, in her post too. In the HBO show, Druckmann is credited by name as having created the game, along with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Naughty Dog collectively. The in🍰dividual devs, however, are not listed. Druckmann is also an executive producer, director, and writer on the show itself, but he has used his influen🤡ce to connect the show to the game far more than some other adaptations, including Until Dawn.

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Some of the cast, like Merle Dandridge as Marlene or Jeffrey Wright as Isaac Dixon, reprise their game roles in the show, while ♍168澳洲幸运5开奖网:other cast me💦mbers from the game play other roles, like the original Ellie, Ashley Johnson, playing Ell🦩ie's mother. We've also seen Halley Gross, who co-wrote the second game, j💯oin the writer's room for the second season, so 🌃that her influence can still be felt.

So while it's true that Druckmann appears to have been singled out for greater credit as one of the biggest names amongst Sony's developers, he's made efforts to take as many people as he can with him. Until Dawn on the other hand seems to actively resent being💟 based on a video game, loosely interpreting thꦗe name as a brand new concept and ignoring everything else in the game. Though there is one returning cast member, he plays a very different role.