‘Until Dawn’ movie release window and more

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2015’s Until Dawn was an early stand-out PlayStation 4 exclusive. Developed by Supermassive Games, it effectively asked players to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to a horror movie. Everyone has yelled at characters not to run upstairs when pursued or split up to search for somebody, but Until Dawn let you make those calls.

That meant every member of the cast could die, resulting in drastically different endings depending on who made it to the credits. Now Until Dawn has been unveiled as a movie adaptation from PlayStation Productions, meaning the game that tried to be a movie is now actually a movie. So what do we know about it?

Cast and crew

Until Dawn will be directed by David F. Sandberg, who proved his horror bona fides with Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation. But to most audiences, he’s better known for DCEU movies Shazam! and Shazam! Fury of the Gods.

Sandberg will be working from a script by Gary Dauberman, an old hand at horror responsible for It, Annabelle and The Nun. He’s reworking an existing script from The Invitation‘s Blair Butler.

The cast is unknown, though the original game cast real actors as virtual characters. Top of the pile is Oscar-winning star Rami Malek, though we suspect he’s now too big to reprise the role in live-action. The rest of the cast perhaps not so much, and the likes of Hayden Panettiere, Noah Fleiss, Jordan Fisher and Peter Stormare may feature in the cast.

That said, the original concept is for a cast of late teens in trouble, so perhaps we’ll get a full recast of up and coming actors.

Story

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Until Dawn is a choice-based story that reacts to your decisions. Unless Sony Pictures takes a radical approach and lets the audience vote on what the characters will do next, we suspect this aspect will be ditched.

Regardless, Until Dawn should broadly follow the game’s overall plot. Without spoiling any twists, the game is about a group of young adults looking forward