Shortly after the release of a 1-minute-long first-look trailer for the upcoming movie Until Dawn movie, a longer trailer has now been released. The trailer, which you can check out below, clocks in at around 2 minutes and 25 seconds.
As the first-look trailer indicated, the Until Dawn movie won’t be a direct adaptation of the game of the same name. Rather, it will take place in the same universe and feature an entirely new cast of characters with its own original story. The movie also seems to be taking a unique twist on the original game’s “anyone can die” feature by having its characters come back to life in the course of its story.
As for the new trailer itself, it looks like the movie will make use of similar tropes to other horror movies that revolve around a group of teenagers trapped in a hostile place. How the movie will subvert these tropes, however, will likely be a key feature of the movie.
While it gives us a quick look at the movie’s setup and some of its characters, all of the protagonists are seemingly killed off within seconds. Time seems to reverse, however, with the characters coming back to life but still somehow remembering the events that led to their deaths.
The story of the Until Dawn movie revolves around the mysterious disappearance of Melanie. This prompts her sister, Clover, to head into a remote valley where Melanie disappeared with her friends to search for answers. In their time at the valley, the group discovers that it is being methodically stalked by a masked killer, and ultimately, the group is murdered one-by-one. Curiously, however, the group awakens at a time before their deaths, while still retaining the memories. Upon learning that they have a limited number of deaths left, the group starts looking for a way to escape these circumstances.
Directed by David F. Sandberg and written by Blair Butler and Gary Dauberman, the Until Dawn movie stars Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Odessa A’zion, Ji-young Yoo, Belmont Cameli, Maia Mitchell and Peter Stormare.
The Until Dawn movie is slated for a theatrical release on April 25. In the mean time, fans of the game can also look forward to a rumoured sequel to the original game that is seemingly in the works.