DBD Movie Idea

Jalex29

I was bored at work today and was thinking about what a DBD movie could look like. With the game concept, lore and backstory, there is so much material that can be pulled from to make a pretty interesting movie. With that said, I started brainstorming and ultimately decided to write my thoughts down on paper. I’ll share it with you guys to get some thoughts on what you think. 

Opening: (Heavily inspired by original DBD game reveal trailer)

A young woman runs through the woods, looking behind her as she does. She stops behind a tree and gasps for air as she looks around her surroundings. In the distance, she hears a scream, panic and fear showing on her face as the screams stop. As she gathers herself, she hears a generator in mid-repair and looks around to find it. Once spotting it, she approaches cautiously and begins to work on it. She hears a twig snap in the woods around her. As she looks up, she sees a shadowy figure behind the trees directly in front of her; She takes off running, making her way into the basement where she hides in a locker. As the figure makes its way downstairs, she holds her breath as it paces back and forth looking at the lockers with curiosity. She holds her breath until the figure appears to walk away. She closes her eyes to heave a sigh of relief, only to open them and see the monstrous figure standing directly in front of her locker and looking in. She screams as the looming figure opens the locker, pulls her out, and carries her on its shoulder to the hooks found nearby. The camera pans out to reveal two other people hooked in the basement as dark, shadowlike claws begin to appear and rip into the victims as the screen cuts to black.

Insert title card: Dead By Daylight

Act 1: The first third of the film would follow Haddie Kaur and Jason Rois, step-siblings who embark on a journey to explore a mysterious building with a horrific backstory. As is explained in the tome lore in the game, they are paranormal investigators who are curious to explore locations of interest due to Haddie’s psychic powers. During this particular adventure, they find disturbing symbols, books, and candles around the building and begin to suspect that they are being followed by dark hooded figures. Just as they are about to be caught, they are surrounded by a dark fog that envelops them as their world goes black.

Act 2: In this part of the film, we follow Haddie as she awakens in a darkened forest in what appears to be the middle of the night. She is completely lost and confused, leading her to call out to Jason as she notices he is not with her. As she does so, she sees a tall, lumbering man wearing overalls and holding a machete burst out from behind the trees. Terrified, she takes off as the giant man begins to follow her. As she evades, is chased and is found multiple times, she comes across other people lost in the forest who tell her to work on generators and escape through the exit gates. (These can be fan favorite survivors from the game.) Slowly but surely,  she begins to understand her situation and what she will need to do to survive. However, this trial ends with Haddie being caught, hooked and killed by the Trapper. 

Act 3: She wakes up once again with her realizing that dying is not an escape from the horror she has experienced. Most importantly, she comes to the conclusion that her brother must also be stuck in the same loop and resolves to find him and escape this world. We are shown a montage of her trying to escape several trials only to be killed by other DBD killers such as the Hag, Doctor, and Hillbilly. We focus on one particular trial, revealing that Haddie is confident that she will have her first escape and, hopefully, return home this time. The killer this time is the Huntress and she has a couple of narrow chase escapes. In this trial, she gets help from the survivor featured in the opening scene of the film and she even comes across her brother. As they try to escape, both their new friend and Jason are both captured, hooked and sacrificed as Haddie makes a tearful escape through the exit without her brother.

Ending scene: Haddie wakes up in the middle of the street of a suburban neighborhood. As she runs to the front doors of the surrounding houses knocking on the doors and screaming for help, she notices the unsettling silence of her surroundings. She soon sees the flashing lights of a police car and runs towards it, thinking she is saved. However, as she nears it, she sees no sign of police and is left confused. Behind her, a tall man in a blue jumpsuit and white mask stands silently in the distance. The screen cuts to black with one final scream.

Now that you’ve read it, what’re your thoughts of my rough idea? Obviously, it needs a lot more detail but do you think this would make for a version of DBD you would want to watch? What would you add or take away? 

P.S. I’m thinking this would be a great opportunity for new killers and survivors to be introduced and released in conjunction with the game. Would be good promotion.  Any sequels would try to uncover a potential real escape from the entity's realm. Other licensed killers could also make appearances.

Tr1nity

ok

deKlaw_04

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/300376/dbd-movie-idea

Easy just make it a tournament. Resident evil characters play against nemesis in RPD. Silent hill goes up against PH in midwitch. The rest idk but something like that or showing the lore of the killers would be cool