Blumhouse is coming off the massive success of Curry Barker‘s “Obsession” as they alongside Universal’s Focus Features acquiring the indie horror flick. So, what we’d expect to see from Blumhouse is to keep trying to secure new or on-the-rise talent to help them with new originals or IP adaptations, which is now the case with their live-action “Dead By Daylight” feature film that also has Atomic Monsters‘ James Wan producing it. Based on the increasingly popular hide-and-seek style horror surivival video game that has been kicking around for a decade.
Not only is the video game adaptation now confirmed, but they’ve secured Icelandic filmmaker Thordur Palsson to helm it as mentioned by Deadline in their report, after being behind the folk horror film “The Damned” set in a remote fishing village, and the slick detective series “The Valhalla Murders” at RÚV/BBC Four.
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A basic synopsis from the game’s official website:
In “Dead by Daylight,” stalk, slash, and sacrifice your prey as a monstrous Killer, or join a team of four crafty Survivors working together to escape.
Alongside crossovers/DLC with established slasher franchises (such as “Friday The 13,” “Scream,” Halloween,” “Terrifier,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” Wan’s “Saw,” “Alien,” “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “Hellraiser,” and “Child’s Play“), the game that has a rather large following has a roster of solo killers that gamers can inhabit such as The Trapper, The Wraith, The Hillbilly, The Nurse, and The Huntress, which could allow a movie to have a team of threats that characters (co-op gameplay) will have to surivive.
“There is no better moment than the 10th anniversary to share this news,” Jason Blum, founder and CEO of Blumhouse Atomic Monster said in an official statement. “Thordur is the filmmaker we trust to carry ‘Dead by Daylight’ from the screen you play on to the big screen you watch in theaters.” Wan adding, “One million people step into ‘Dead by Daylight’ daily, and this adaptation brings them the world they love most, from Greenville to The MacMillan Estate. Thordur understands that the terror only lands if you care about who’s running, and ‘The Damned’ proved he can make you feel the walls closing in. That is exactly the instinct this film needs on screen.”
We’re still waiting to learn about casting for “Dead by Daylight,” and
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