The Dead by Daylight movie is finally moving forward at Blumhouse, as the studio officially greenlights the film, bringing on board a horror director to lead the project.
Alongside James Wan’s production company Atomic Monster and video game developer Behaviour Interactive, Blumhouse has tapped Thordur Palsson to direct the film (H/T Variety).
Palsson is best known for his Netflix detective series The Valhalla Murders and 2025 monster movie The Damned.
In a statement, Blumhouse CEO Jason Blum said, “Thordur is the filmmaker we trust to carry ‘Dead by Daylight’ from the screen you play on to the big screen you watch in theaters.”
Earlier this year, the project found its writers in Crawl scribe Alexandre Aja and The Conjuring 2’s David Leslie Johnston-McGoldrick.
Not much is known about the movie at this point, but it is said to start filming sometime in 2027. The movie adapts the hit multiplayer game of the same name, which follows four players who must complete tasks to escape. However, five players take part, and one is selected as the killer. The killer’s goal is to trap each survivor and sacrifice them to The Entity one by one.
In the original game, the survivor characters consist of former office worker Dwight Fairfield, super speedy athlete Meg Thomas, clever botanist Claudette Morel, and survivalist Jake Park. The killer characters consist of a Grim Reaper-like ghoul known as The Wraith, Leatherface-like chainsaw-wielder The Hillbilly, and a bear-trap-laying villain called The Trapper (kind of like Friday the 13th’s Jason).
No cast announcements have been made at this moment, but fans have already been casting their favorites.
So far, fans seem to want either Joseph Gordon Levitt or Andrew Garfield to play Dwight, Evil Dead star Jane Levy or Margaret Qualley as Meg, Teyonah Parris or Zoe Kravitz as Claudette Morel, and either Steven Yeun or Osric Chau as Jake Park. In terms of the killers, fans think someone strong should play The Trapper, such as Henry Cavill, and think Jamie Lee Curtis should voice the Entity.
The Dead by Daylight movie does not yet have a release date. For more, check out our guides to the best video game movies and upcoming video game movies.
