Blumhouse and Atomic Monster, along with Canadian gaming studio Behaviour Interactive, have tapped David Leslie Johnston-McGoldrick and Alexandre Aja to pen the feature adaptation of Dead by Daylight, Behaviour’s hit horror game.

Johnston-McGoldrick has worked with James Wan on several franchises, including working on three of the Conjuring Universe movies. Meanwhile, Aja is a French director and screenwriter known for The Hills Have Eyes, Crawl, and Never Let Go. However, Aja won’t be directing the adaptation due to scheduling conflicts, so the hunt for a director is still ongoing.

Dead by Daylight centres on a group of four survivors who must find a set of generators in order to escape a killer trying to sacrifice them to appease a being known as The Entity.
 
“What David and Alexandre bring to Dead by Daylight is a rare balance of character-driven storytelling and relentless genre intensity,” said Jason Blum. “Drawing from survival horror and psychological terror, their work establishes a world where fear is not just experienced, but earned. It is a cinematic blueprint designed to attract a director who can elevate that vision through performance and scale.”

“Alexandre and David are two modern masters of horror, and their script celebrates a dark distinction, Dead by Daylight is a game, its world is a nightmare,” stated Stephen Mulrooney, producer and Behaviour’s chief product officer. “We look forward to working with a director who appreciates the depth of their story, and cannot wait to see their visceral vision brought to life.”

Wan, Blum and Mulrooney are producers on the adaptation. Executive producers include Behaviour’s Remi Racine, Atomic Monster’s Michael Clear and Judson Scott, Blumhouse’s Ryan Turek, and Striker Entertainment’s Russell Binder.