While we haven’t received a trailer for the film yet, Sony Pictures has released a first look at the upcoming movie “Until Dawn,” which is inspired by the video game of the same name. The first look features writer and producer Gary Dauberman, director David F. Sandberg, and actor Peter Stormare as they share a bit about how they’ve tried to capture the essence of the game in the film despite it telling an all-new story.
The 2015 interactive horror game “Until Dawn” is a choose-your-own-adventure kind of experience. As the cinematic experiences play out, you make decisions determining the fate of different characters in the game. Oftentimes, players who are unhappy with their choices go back and replay the game or the scene to get a different outcome, and, to some degree, the filmmakers try to recreate that experience in the film.
“One of the creative things the game did is that people make different choices and die in different ways,” explains Sandberg in the first look. “The movie has this mechanic where things start over, and they get to try again.”
The “Until Dawn” movie follows a group of friends who return to the remote valley where one of their friends vanished a year earlier. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one…only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening Trapped in the valley, they’re forced to relive the nightmare again and again – only each time, the killer threat is different, each more terrifying than the last Hope dwindling, the group soon realizes they have a limited number of deaths left, and the only way to escape is to survive until dawn.
Stormare, who voiced the character Dr. Hill in the “Until Dawn” video game, is what brings the video game world and film worlds together, with the actor reprising the role of Dr. Hill for the film Ella Rubin (“Anora”), Michael Cimino (“Love, Victor”), Odessa A’zion (“Hellraiser”), Ji-young Yoo (“Smoking Tigers”), Belmont Cameli (“Along for the Ride”), and Maia Mitchell (“Good Trouble”) make up the rest of the film’s cast.
“Until Dawn” is expected to arrive in theaters in April.
