Sony’s Until Dawn Movie Takes Liberties With Game’s Plot

Of all the game-to-screen announcements Sony has made, a horror film based on Until Dawn made the most sense. The game, after all, was made in the fashion of an interactive movie, and a tribute to survival horror pictures. Your goal was to keep as many characters in the story’s cast alive as possible before dawn broke. It was possible to rescue all or none.

All they’d have to do to make a movie is Xerox the plot of the game, right? ….One would think so, but director David F. Sandberg appeared in a sneak peek video today where he revealed the movie’s going to be totally different. “The movie, it has sort of the same tone and the same vibe but it expands upon the universe,” he said. “One of the creative things the game did is that people make different choices and die in different ways….”

So, inspired by that, the Until Dawn movie has a new premise where the characters get to die over and over and try again — yep, it’s a time loop movie. A group of young people find a haunted house, mess with an hourglass on the wall they shouldn’t have messed with and bam, they’re in the loop. Each span of time, Sandberg says, will be different, based on its own horror genre. It’ll be a meta film, but it’ll take itself seriously.

Sony’s Until Dawn (the movie) will be released in theaters April 25.

Same night, different nightmare. Hear from David F. Sandberg, Gary Dauberman, and Peter Stormare about the filmmaking process for @UntilDawn_Movie. Trailer coming soon. #UntilDawnMovie pic.twitter.com/GoIK2gZ60X

— Sony Pictures (@SonyPictures) January 14, 2025