A film adaptation of the hit video game “Dead by Daylight” is in the works at James Wan’s Atomic Monster and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions.
The game’s developer Behaviour Interactive will team with the studios on the project which is currently seeking a writer and director to steer it. As things are so early in the process, it’s a long way from any casting or story details just yet.
Launched in 2016, the asymmetrical multiplayer survival horror game has reached over 50 million players worldwide with two million active players playing every day.
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,” “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”.
In a statement from the companies, Wan calls the game a “love letter to the world of horror” and dibbed it “perfect for a scary cinematic adaptation”.
Blum adds: “We know there are so many fans of Dead by Daylight out there and think it’s imperative we find someone who appreciates and loves the world as much as we do, to help us bring the game to the big screen.”
Source: Yahoo
