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The next video game movie, Until Dawn, is in theaters now, but we recently learned that director David F. Sandberg almost passed on it. He said in an interview that he considered giving up on IP-based films after the negative reaction to his superhero movie, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, over which he said he received death threats.
“I mean, to be honest, fans can get very, very crazy and very angry with you. You can get, like, death threats and everything so after Shazam 2, I was like, ‘I never wanna do another IP-based movie because it’s just not worth it,'” Sandberg told GamesRadar.
However, Sandberg said he read the Until Dawn script and thought it would be “so much fun to do,” so he ultimately signed on to make it. Specifically, Sandberg said he latched onto the movie’s core storytelling conceit, which is that the story plays out in a time loop where the survivors have to face a different horror threat each night.
