Dead by Daylight movie from Atomic Monster and Blumhouse finds a director: Thordur Palsson

Three years have passed since it was announced that James Wan’s company Atomic Monster and Jason Blum’s company Blumhouse Productions, which recently merged, would be making a feature film adaptation of Behaviour Interactive’s global multiplayer horror video game Dead by Daylight – and now, the project has finally found its director! Thordur Palsson, who created the Netflix serial killer thriller series The Valhalla Murders and made his feature directorial debut with the folk horror movie The Damned, will be taking the helm of Dead by Daylight.

What is Dead by Daylight?

Dead by Daylight is a multiplayer (4vs1) horror game where one player takes on the role of the savage Killer, and the other four players play as Survivors, trying to escape the Killer and avoid being caught, tortured and killed. Survivors play in third-person and have the advantage of better situational awareness. Since its launch in 2016, Dead by Daylight has reached over 50 million players worldwide, with two million players stepping into The Fog every day. The game features a vast universe where classic horror survives and thrives. Having welcomed iconic characters from TV, film, and gaming, it’s only fitting that the franchise expands to new horizons to tell its story.

James Wan, Jason Blum, and Behaviour Interactive’s Stephen Mulrooney are producing the Dead by Daylight film. Behaviour Interactive’s Remi Racine, Atomic Monster’s Michael Clear and Judson Scott, Blumhouse’s Ryan Turek, and Striker Entertainment’s Russell Binder serve as executive producers.

Thordur Palsson will be directing the film from a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, who has previously worked with Wan on the Conjuring sequels and both of his Aquaman movies, and Alexandre Aja, who is best known for being the director of Haute Tension, The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Piranha 3D, and Crawl, among other films.  Aja isn’t directing Dead by Daylight because he’s busy making the shark thriller Under Paris 2 for Netflix.

What has Thordur Palsson said about Dead by Daylight?

Our friends at Bloody Disgusting report that Palsson’s involvement with the film was revealed at a celebration of the game’s 10th anniversary. Jason Blum announced, “Thordur is the filmmaker we trust to carry Dead by Daylight from the screen you play on to the big screen you watch in theatres.“

Palsson provided the following statement: “For me, the main thing is capturing the feeling of playing Dead by Daylight. The main thing is I want to capture the feeling of looking over your shoulder. I want to capture the dread, the tension, the fear of what’s waiting for you in The Fog.“

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