If The Until Dawn Movie Isn't About Until Dawn, What Is It?

When it was announced in October of last year that would have an entirely new cast, I was disappointed, but not surprised. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I wrote at the time that while the original Hollywood actors were a pull for the game, the initial ensemble would have to be replaced if the movie would be a straight adaptation of the game, since the actors have aged out of the roles by now. Not to mention Rami Malek would be si🌠gnificantly more expensive.

Until Dawn Isn’t About Until Dawn

Except now, it turns out, the film won’t feature the same characters or even the same story. As shared during a Sony presentation at CES 2025 in Las Vegas꧙, the film has near🐼ly nothing in common with the source material.

Actor Peter Stormare, who playe𝔍d Doctor Hill (essentially the narrator removed from the plot) in the original game and will feature in the film, , “The movie is going to be full of fresh characters and victims in a brand new story loaded with twists.” Apparently, the film is still a “love letter to horror” that “completely honours the spirit of the game”, and this choice was made to cater to both “longtime fans” and those “discovering it for the first ti𒈔me”.

Ashley Brucks, president of Sony’s film division, said the team is still trying to respect the source material. “In adapting Until Dawn, filmmaker David F Sandberg, who is a big fan of the widely acclaimed game, took the essence of what makes the game great and selected elements we think are the m𒈔ost important to the fans and paid homage to it in the right way,” she said. It’s unclear exactly what these elements are, but the premise is that the film is about “a group of friends who encounter a var𝔍iety of terrifying threats”.

✅Until Dawn Looks Worse On Purpose In The Quest To Look Better

The blue filter had 🀅a purpose, and without it, the game feels lacking character.

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What Makes This Until Dawn, Then?

This is far from an original premise. Until Dawn wasn’t the first to put a bunch of friends in the middle of a horrifying situation – just off the top of my head: Midsommar, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Final Destination, Thꦫe Blackening, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Descent – and it sure won’t be the last. There’s even a movie already named after the idea of a cabin in the woods.

So, what else might we expect from the film? Perhaps it’ll be a sequel of sorts, one that ref☂ers to the events of the game but without actually being about them, though at that point, it shouldn’t really be called Until Dawn. Maybe it’ll have Stormare returning as Doctor Hill, tying the movie to the game on a more meta level, the same way The Curator ties all other the Supermassive games in The Dark Pictures Anthology together with his presence.

Or maybe – and this is a stretch, maybe even wishful thinking – the movie will somehow bring Until Dawn’s cascading decisions and multiple endings to cinemas. We could get different versions, with different endings depending on who survives, just like in the games. It’s been done before, with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Across The Spider-Verse and , so it’s not totally unprecedented, but it would probably be difficult to pull off🔴 considering just how different the endings ꦯmight be. People might be disappointed to walk into a cinema and find they’ve been allotted the bad ending. It probably wouldn’t work out for the best, but it sure would be cool.

Either way, ♕we’ll only know for sure if this iꦚs an Until Dawn movie in any spiritual sense or just a regular old horror movie when it hits cinemas in April. As always, I’m hoping for the best, but expecting something mediocre.