“Dead by Daylight” Film Sets New Writers

Blumhouse–Atomic Monster and Canadian game developer Behaviour Interactive have set Alexandre Aja and David Leslie Johnston-McGoldrick to pen the feature film adaptation of hit asymmetrical multiplayer survivor horror title “Dead by Daylight”.

Aja is the French filmmaker best known for “Crawl,” “Piranha 3D” and “The Hills Have Eyes” remake. Johnston-McGoldrick penned both “Aquaman” and “Orphan” films, the three “The Conjuring” sequels, and “Wrath of the Titans”.

The pair haven’t worked together before, which makes this an interesting team-up. Aja won’t direct the film as he’s committed to “Under Paris 2,” which will begin shooting shortly, so a search is now on for a director.

Launched a decade ago, the 1 vs 4 game sees a group of players trying to hide and escape from a killer. The Killer must impale each Survivor on sacrificial hooks to appease a malevolent force known as the Entity, while the Survivors have to avoid being caught and power up the exit gates by working together to fix five generators.

It’s mostly famous for licensing and incorporating famed characters from many different horror franchises as both the killer and survivors including characters from “Halloween,” “Alien,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Stranger Things,” “Evil Dead,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “Saw,” “Scream,” “Ringu,” “Hellraiser,” “Resident Evil,” “Silent Hill,” and “Left 4 Dead”.

Jason Blum, Blumhouse’s founder and CEO, says in a statement:

“What David and Alexandre bring to Dead by Daylight is a rare balance of character-driven storytelling and relentless genre intensity. Drawing from survival horror and psychological terror, their work establishes a world where fear is not just experienced, but earned. It is a cinematic blueprint designed to attract a director who can elevate that vision through performance and scale.”

The game has reached over 60 million players worldwide and has inspired board games, comics and cosmetics. James Wan, Jason Blum and Stephen Mulrooney are producers.

Source: THR