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The new Until Dawn movie is just Dead by Daylight without generators
And I'm saying this because, if you put the two games side by side, and compare them to the movie, the Until Dawn game has the core concepts of dbd with a few symbolic add ons from Until Dawn. It's practically dbd bones with an Until Dawn skin tacked on.
The movie is about a group of survivors who have to escape while dying a gazillion times to different killers. It's also revealed they lose most of the memories from their trials. So they're trapped in a cycle of trying to escape together, while an entity of some sort thrives on their pain and fear. None of this stuff is from the original Until Dawn. That's it's own story with different choices you make affecting what characters live and which die.
There's even multiple scenes where the survivors talk about how "their trial" started badly and they want to off themselves so that they can start over and stand a better chance of escaping...Just like what happens in dbd literally all the time.
I'm intrigued how this will effect the upcoming dbd movie with blumhouse, as the Until Dawn movie has already used the main concept of dbd. If they did come out with a movie about a bunch of survivors facing off against a collection of killers over and over again, people will think they copied Until Dawn lmao.
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The real question is why they even attached the Until Dawn name to this.
It's the opposite of what people disliked about Frank Stone. The references to the source material are so far and few in between that it may as well have been coincidental.
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Yeah alot of us noticed this when the first teaser came out. I don't understand why they couldn't just stick to the original Until Dawn story
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Ugh I want Until Dawn (the game) in DBD so BADDDD. It's been on my wishlist forever. 🙏
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So I don't need to watch this movie. Thanks for the heads up
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I made a thread on this weeks ago no one commented on it lol
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I haven't seen the Until Dawn film, so please correct me if I make a mistake talking about the movie.
I feel like a DBD movie could still bring a lot to the table by discussing more about the eldritch nature of the entity, as this ancient cosmic god snatching up vulnerable people and killers who prove themselves "worthy" to it in some way. Unravelling the mysteries of why this cosmic entity exists and why it combs realities for victims and champions could be a very interesting story. Basically, I think it could focus on a lot of Observer type stuff between trials to differentiate it.
DBD's lore is extensive enough now that it can be a very rich backdrop for a movie, unlike the thrown together Until Dawn (movie) plot. If anything, Until Dawn shows the DBD movie makers what they shouldn't do, which is focus too heavily on the trials. I've seen a number of comparisons between the Until Dawn movie and Groundhog Day. In that respect, Until Dawn might actually help the DBD movie.
As for why they made the Until Dawn movie that way, the director argued that it would be boring if they made a "condensed, non-interactive" version of the game. I say that argument rings hollow, because that's literally what people were asking for. I think Sony didn't really want to make an actual Until Dawn film and probably just wanted to cash in on the name of one of their popular video games.
After all, this is the same company that made Morbius.
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Damn, it really does look like DBD in a way. The killers (loosesly based on trapper and huntress it seems) look familiar enough.
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When the Teaser for The Twins came out, I thought it was for The Wendigo in Until Dawn…and was sorely disappointed by one of the biggest flop killers in the game
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I finished the movie and came searching for this. I was pretty upset while watching it the whole time.
I never even played Until Dawn. The whole time I was just thinking, like you said, how this blatant "stealing" will affect DBD's movie.
My only consolidation was thinking that the entity will be in it more, adding a cosmic horror touch. But yeah, people are totally going to be writing reviews thinking DBD's movie copied Until Dawn movie, not the other way around.
Unless DBD's movie is 3 hours long, where they flesh out the lore and characters to a more nuance variant, we're going to be getting very similar slasher vibes, like most of these types of movies.0 -
AFAIK the movie wasn't originally supposed to be Until Dawn. It was an original script that had the Until Dawn IP tacked onto it after being written because they didn't think it would sell tickets.
Regardless of the reason though, I find it pretty disrespectful to the fans of the original game (myself included). This isn't Until Dawn in anything but a name, and it follows a looooong trend of game-to-movie adaptations being very far removed from the source material.
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DBD movie needs to focus on the killer and survivor's perspective, and how & why they got taken by The Entity, but only for the one third of the movie.
Like, the Entity appears to the killer before the realm like a God, and they revere it with awe, and a willingness to participate.
Focus on before they got taken, and how they're sadistic, or seeking some type of redemption that will never come, but meeting The Watcher, finding hope in escape of eternal death (but failing, of course).
Not just another movie, where a bunch of lost kids getting themselves killed for the umpteenth time.
Again, if it doesn't focus around The Entity, it will just be another slasher. They need to differentiate themselves and go full cosmic horror, creepy spider-like legs, or whatever that was, in The Casting of Frank Stone.1 -
The movie is about a group of survivors who have to escape while dying a gazillion times to different killers. It's also revealed they lose most ...There are choice moments that monkey type attempt to help us relive the game, but they're crammed in like afterthoughts. Ji-young Yoo's spiritualist character Megan has everyone hold hands in silence, mimicking the game's quiet "hold your breath" Quicktime events.while adding that “we don't put movies in the calen dar until we have the right script.” Speaking further, Blumm made it clear that they're willing to be patient. “I hope we get a script that we love.
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