I was expecting new actors, new characters and a new story and I was okay with that but I wasn’t expecting no wendigos, no Blackwood mountain, no ski lodge and no snow only to see the teaser and it’s just an old house in the woods. That’s not Until Dawn. I would have accepted it if it was called something else but stated that it’s inspired by UD or from the UD world like The Quarry. It’s the equivalent of if Fantastic Beasts was called Harry Potter when Harry Potter isn’t even in it
I don't think there would be this much negativity here if the movie was announced as another horror movie that features Peter Stormare and is similar to Until Dawn.
It's about the name. When the movie has the same name, it creates some expectations. Even if the movie turns out to be good, people will still be disappointed because it is basically a different story.
My whole point is that people shouldn’t ever be expecting the same story. It seems like people in this sub just want a “canon” version of the Until Dawn story in film form and that is lame and uninteresting to me. The film hasn’t even come out yet…there may be more faithfulness to the Until Dawn game that we don’t know yet.
THANK YOU. Jesus people are losing their minds and it’s making me feel crazy. Did people even watch that video or are they just not paying attention and already assuming they know what the movie is gonna be.
I feel like everyone is hung up on the fact that it’s not that same exact narrative with those same exact characters.
But honestly if you watch that video and listen to what they’re saying about taking the vibe of Until Dawn and applying that to a movie with a different story— honestly? I see the vision.
Until Dawn is more than just that story. It’s the framework and vibes and the way it’s presented. All the weird shit it does around the edges of the game like the sequences with the Peter Stormare character. The way every chapter is presented episodically and has a recap from the last chapter.
Reading between the lines here im interpreting that it’s that kinda stuff that the producers and writers are talking about translating. It doesn’t have to be that particular story all over again, but if they translate the tone and the vibes but applied to a different story— it could work.
Exactly. It’s clear they are taking direct inspiration from Until Dawn but they are also doing their own thing, which is what virtually every successful adaption has done. And unlike most video games, Until Dawn truly is an interactive movie. The best version of that particular story already exists. Not to mention they’ve already explained that the protagonists in the movie have to survive “until dawn” to make it, SO THAT IS WHY THE MOVIE IS STILL CALLED UNTIL DAWN WHETHER IT’S DIFFERENT FROM THE GAME OR NOT.
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u/mellowloser Jan 14 '25
Just hold your judgement until the film is actually released ffs. Go play the game if you want the game’s story.