'Until Dawn' filmmakers on 'The Last of Us' effect on video game adaptations

As someone who played the game, I was really curious how you adapt something that's already based on movies

And I think it's interesting how you guys took the time loop angle. Can you tell me a little bit about how that decision came about

It was kind of a meta thing, but we talked about, you know, Blair and I, the co-writer

had discussed when you're playing a game and you die and then you reset and you play again

And it's different each time. So it's not, you know, Super Mario Brothers where you're learning the patterns of the movements of the enemies and something

So it's so different. We thought how cool that would be to introduce into a horror movie that like when you die, you're suddenly in a different horror movie because the game is such a love letter to horror movies

So we thought this would be a really cool idea to sort of introduce that idea into the movie

We all got murder and now we're here again. So the night is just in our piece

I don't remember that happening last time. You brought Peter Stormare back

And I'm curious, when looking at who was cast in the original and who you were going to bring back

what were those conversations like and how did you go, Peter's the guy? Well, it's really about Dr. Hill, the character he plays

because we wanted the game to feel like one part of a story, the movie to feel like another part of that same story

And we think Dr. Hill is really kind of the master of ceremonies. And really, it's his story probably, you know

that can unfold throughout the franchise. We're using him as kind of the connective tissue

In terms of other actors and stuff, we just thought the characters in the game

had their story in the game, and we would introduce a whole new set of characters that Dr. Hill would interact with

I was just very excited to have Hill come back because that meant getting to work with Peter Stormare who awesome to work with And I mean he such a He just very memorable in everything he does

I'm looking for my sister. Does she look familiar to you? She's gone missing

Up the road, there's a place. Stuck in time. For years and years and years, people kind of wrote off video game adaptations as, like, this is going to be inherently bad

And then I feel like The Last of Us came along and the conversation shifted very abruptly

So I'm curious for you, how did The Last of Us impact the making of Until Dawn

It feels like that video game curse has been lifted in some ways. Because not just with The Last of Us, but now you have, like, Sonic and Mario and Minecraft

like it feels like okay something of you know it's sort of past the stigma of it's not the

super mario brothers of of was it the 80s yeah yeah but you forget but like i mean that's how

comic books are treated in the 90s i mean there's there was you know fantastic for me people it's

almost like they didn't know what they had when they were adapting it and i feel like that was

with video games too you know i don't know if it's a now their respect for the genre people who

aren't gamers or or it's gamers who are now getting into the jobs who understand what the

I think so. Everyone from the 80s and on, games are now a part of life

just like movies and books and comics and everything. It's not looked down upon in the same way that it maybe was before

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