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Director David Sandberg on the set of ‘Until Dawn.’ Kerry Brown/Sony Pictures “I knew I wanted to do Until Dawn once I read the script,” explains director David F. Sandberg as we discuss his latest film inspired by the iconic video game. However, there was one thing still holding him back. “To be honest, after Shazam 2, I was like, ‘I don’t know if I ever want to do an IP thing again,’ because the fans can get very passionate and have specific ideas about how things should be. They can get very angry with you, and it can be death threats and all these kinds of things, so I was like, ‘Do I really want to do that again?’” “Gary Dauberman, who I worked with on Annabelle: Creation, sent me this script, and it was so cool. I would get to do all these different horror genres, and I’ve always wanted to do a horror movie that is full of practical effects, gore, monsters, and all these things. I couldn’t say no.” One year after her sister disappears, Clover, played by Anora’s Ella Rubin, and a bunch of friends head to where she went missing looking for answers. However, the journey leads them to a compound where they are trapped and hunted, killed one by one, but caught in a bloody loop where they die over and over until they can survive until dawn. Until Dawn is R-rated and lands in theaters on Friday, April 25, 2025. “What I liked about the script was that they left the game alone,” Sandberg enthuses. “Rather than try to recreate what was already pretty much a very good movie, they expanded on the universe and did a continuation of that. Instead of the same Until Dawn that people have played and seen,…

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