News of a live-action Until Dawn movie, announced early last year, was greeted with near-immediate trepidation from many fans of the series. After all, the 2015 game already featured a cast of Hollywood actors, and part of the charm of the game was the fact that the player decided what would happen at every turn — how would the movie decide which version of the game’s story was best? As it turns out, that’s not going to be an issue because the game is telling a new story with a different cast of characters.
This announcement came during Sony’s presentation at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show, via a video from actor Peter Stormare, the only member of the original game’s cast to reprise his role in the movie. Stormare plays Dr. Alan J. Hill, a psychologist who, in the original game, is something of a narrator for the game’s events, and is mostly seen during first-person interview segments.
According to Stormare’s announcement, just because it’s a new story doesn’t mean longtime Until Dawn fans shouldn’t be excited. The video says that the movie will stick closely to the spirit of the game and that, like the game, it will be a love letter to the horror genre.
That’s probably the best possible option. After all, Until Dawn’s success in 2015 helped developer Supermassive Games launch a series of similar choose-your-own adventure horror games, each with their own unique characters and stories, so why shouldn’t the movie start fresh too?
We’re also wondering if sticking to the spirit of the games could suggest that the movie might add an element of choice or randomness. While there probably isn’t room for a fully-interactive adventure in a movie theater, it’s entirely possible the production team, led by director David F. Sandberg (Annabelle: Creation) and writer Gary Dauberman (It), could follow in the footsteps of the movie version of Clue, giving the film different endings or different versions that vary based on theater. In fact, Sony Pictures did something similar just a couple of years ago with its release of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — though the changes across versions were pretty small.
Whatever happens, we won’t have to wait too much longer to learn more. Until Dawn is set for release in theaters on April 25, and will star Ella Rubin (Anora), Michael Cimino (Annabelle Comes Home), Ji-young Soon (Expats), Odessa A’zion (Hellraiser), Maia Mitchell (Good Trouble), and Belmont Cameli (Based on a True Story).
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