Dead By Daylight Producer provides updates on the film adaptation

Blumhouse has its fingers in a lot of video game-related pies at the moment, with the studio producing upcoming ones Five Nights at Freddy's 2 and starting your own game publishing house. One project under the Blumhouse umbrella that fans have been waiting to hear more about is Dead by Daylight film.

Dead by daylight The film was announced in March 2023 and was led by horror experts Jason Blum (Blumhouse) and James Wan (Atomic Monster). Dead by Daylight's Developer Behavior Interactive is also involved in the adaptation. Dead by Daylight started as a multiplayer game in 2016, with the premise that one player becomes the killer while the others must try to survive the night. The video game has collaborated on a variety of options over the years, implementing horror icons like Michael Myers, Pyramid Head, and even Extraterrestrial xenomorph The collaboration between two masters of the horror industry and one of the gaming industry's most popular horror titles seemed like a match made in heaven, even after a year without news. Dead by Daylight adaptation.

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Dead by Daylight producer Jason Blum recently attended New York Comic Con and gave a long-awaited update on the film adaptation. In an interview with ComicBook.com, Blum said the team is “working on a script,” though he didn't mention which writer was attached to write it. “We don't put movies on the calendar until we have the right script,” Blum explained of the missing release date. Dead by Daylight's film iteration.

The producer didn't seem concerned about the status of the adaptation, saying, “It took 10 years to make Five Nights at Freddy'sand I think one of the reasons the movie worked is because we spent 10 years trying to get it right.” Five Nights at Freddy's indeed, he spent a decade in development hell, with several writers and directors, before the film hired Emma Tammi. Five Nights at Freddy's became Blumhouse's highest-grossing film at the worldwide box office. It was successful enough to earn a sequel with a release date set for December 2025. Blum added that he has no timeline for Dead by Daylight script, saying that it can take anywhere from 12 months to 5 years.

It's no surprise that Blum is happy about it Dead by Daylight take your time with the movie. Video game adaptations have had a tumultuous history over the years, many of which have been completely rejected by fans. Others, like Movie The Last of Us, Super Mario Brosand Five Nights at Freddy's have seen great success in recent years, signaling a new era for these kinds of game adaptations. AND Dead by Daylight adaptation will undoubtedly be complex due to the nature of the game, which relies on player choice in its multiplayer rounds. That being said, the basic nature of the game's plot, where the Killer hunts down aliens and impales them on hooks to sacrifice them to some entity, is an easy enough premise to serve as an interesting basis for a horror film. Dead by Daylight's the variation of Killer characters over the years will also no doubt provide plenty of fertile ground for creative twists in the film.

AND Dead by Daylight the film is currently in development with no release date.

Have you ever wanted to play as one of the characters from your favorite horror movies? Dead by Daylight is a 1v4 multiplayer game that draws from all corners of the horror world from the powerful slasher to the terrifying paranormal entity.

Choose between playing an unstoppable killer and one of 4 survivors trying to escape a gruesome death. Each character has their own deep progression system and plenty of unlockables that can be customized to suit your personal strategy. Work together to escape or track down and sacrifice any survivors.

This edition of Dead by Daylight gives you access to a roster of 7 killers (The Trapper, The Hillbilly, The Wraith, The Nurse, The Hag, The Huntress and The Doctor) and 9 survivors (Meg Thomas, Claudette Morel, Jake Park, Dwight Fairfield, Ace Visconti, Nea Karlsson, Bill Overbeck, Feng Min and David King). It also includes two cosmetic packs full of outfits for different characters.

Franchise

dead by daylight

Released

June 14, 2016

Multiplayer

Online multiplayer

Engine

Unreal Engine 4

ESRB

M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language

How long to beat

ON

Steam Deck compatibility

Yes

X|S Optimized

Yes

PS Plus availability

Extra & Premium

Xbox Series file size

51 GB (October 2022)

Number of players

5

OpenCritic rating

Fair

Cross Save

Yes

Cross-platform play

PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Extend

2:36 a.m

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