With the production of the upcoming Five Nights at Freddy's 2 and the establishment of its own gaming publishing firm, Blumhouse currently has its hands in a lot of video game-related pies. The Dead by Daylight movie is one Blumhouse production about which fans have been eager to learn more.

Horror film gurus Jason Blum (Blumhouse) and James Wan (Atomic Monster) are spearheading the development of the Dead by Daylight film, which was revealed in March 2023. Behaviour Interactive, the company behind Dead by Daylight, is also working on the adaptation. In 2016, Dead by Daylight was first released as a multiplayer game with the idea that one player would turn into a murderer while the other players would have to strive to survive the night. Over the years, the video game has collaborated with a variety of horror icons, including Pyramid Head, Michael Myers, and even Alien's xenomorph. Though a year had gone by with no updates on the project, the partnership between two of the horror film industry's titans and one of the most well-known horror video games appeared to be a match made in heaven.

The Status Of The Dead By Daylight: What Is It?

Jason Blum, the producer of Dead by Daylight, recently gave a much-needed update on the movie adaptation while at New York Comic Con. Blum stated that the team was "working on the script" in an interview with ComicBook.com, although he did not specify whose writer was assigned to create it. Blum explained the absence of a release date for the film version of Dead by Daylight by saying, "We don't put movies in the calendar until we have the right script."

"It took ten years to make Five Nights at Freddy's, and I think one of the reasons the movie worked is because we spent ten years trying to get it right," the producer said, seemingly unconcerned about the adaptation's progress. Before Emma Tammi was hired, Five Nights at Freddy's spent ten years in development hell with several writers and directors attached. Blumhouse's highest-grossing movie at the global box office was Five Nights at Freddy's. Because of its success, a sequel was created, and it will be released in December 2025. The Dead by Daylight script, Blum continued, might take anything from 12 months to 5 years, and he had no timeframe for it.

Blum is pleased that the Dead by Daylight film is taking its time, which is not surprising. Over the years, the history of video game adaptations has been turbulent, with several being rejected outright by fans. A new age for these game adaptations has been heralded by the recent success of others like Super Mario Bros. Movie, The Last of Us, and Five Nights at Freddy's. Given the nature of the game, which depends on player decision in its multiplayer rounds, an adaptation of Dead by Daylight will undoubtedly be challenging.Nevertheless, the game's fundamental plot—in which a killer hunts strangers and impales them on hooks for sacrifice to an entity—is a simple enough idea to make a compelling horror movie. The Killer characters in Dead by Daylight have changed throughout time, which will undoubtedly provide the movie lots of opportunities for inventive turns.

There is currently no set release date for the Dead by Daylight movie that is in development.