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Blumhouse and The Conjuring writer team up for Dead by Daylight horror movie
The hit survival horror game Dead by Daylight is coming to the big screen and Blumhouse clearly see the appeal of video game adaptations.
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Survivors have a whole new realm to try to escape from; Dead by Daylight, the hit survival-horror game from Behaviour Interactive, is coming to the big screen as Blumhouse seeks to capitalize on the popularity of video game adaptations. As Five Nights at Freddy’s continues to be a box office hit, Blumhouse is tapping the writer of The Conjuring franchise to pen the Dead by Daylight movie.
It is a sign that video game adaptations are becoming even bigger. Just last week, Jason Momoa was confirmed to be starring in the Helldivers film. Now, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster have announced that David Leslie Johnston-McGoldrick and Alexandre Aja will be writing the script for the Dead by Daylight film. Both have plenty of experience in the horror genre; Johnson-McGoldrick worked on three movies in The Conjuring franchise, while Aja is known for his work on The Hills Have Eyes.
Dead By Daylight is a slightly different kind of story to adapt, however; the plot, which revolves around a mysterious Entity that demands sacrifices in the form of terrified survivors, is relatively loose. This isn’t a story-driven game by any means, but it is an incredibly popular one that has been one of the biggest hits in the growing asymmetrical survival game genre. Players control either a Killer, who is sometimes an original character created for the game and sometimes based on an icon from horror films or comics, or a Survivor, who must evade being murdered and violently hung up on a bloody hook. The loop is repeated over and over because the Survivors are eternally locked in a pocket dimension of terror, so adapting that for a film is going to be interesting.
The upcoming Dead by Daylight film doesn’t have a director yet, but it does have a pair of writers who know their way around the horror genre.
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