‘Dead by Daylight’ Animated Series in the Works [Exclusive]

Friday the 13th ended with a bang when THR broke the news that David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (Orphan, The Conjuring 2) and Alexandre Aja (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D, Crawl) would be co-writing the big screen adaptation of the popular horror video game Dead by Daylight.

The “scary cinematic adaptation” of the Behaviour Interactive video game will be produced by Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster, although there’s still no director or studio attached to the project.

Similarly, DREAD CENTRAL can exclusively report that the companies are also out to writers to develop a Dead by Daylight animated series based on the games, in which a group of four survivors must find a set of generators in order to escape a killer who seeks to sacrifice them using hooks to appease a being known as The Entity.

Launched in 2016, the game has reached over 60 million players worldwide, building a massive global audience across platforms, and has also created an ever-expanding universe blending classic horror with new. In addition to the games on various platforms, Daylight has inspired board games, comics and even cosmetics.

Blumhouse-Atomic Monster picked up the movie rights in 2023.