{"id":868453,"date":"2026-06-15T08:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/868453\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:10:15","slug":"dead-by-daylight-taps-thordur-palsson-for-blumhouse-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/868453\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Dead by Daylight’ Taps Thordur Palsson For Blumhouse Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter 10 years, Dead by Daylight<\/a> is getting the horror film treatment with director Thordur Palsson<\/a> helming the adaptation of the video game for Blumhouse Atomic Monster<\/a> and Behaviour Interactive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Icelandic director (Netflix\u2019s The Valhalla Murders, The Damned) was announced as the movie\u2019s director on Sunday during the Dead by Daylight 10th anniversary celebration in Montreal, a sold-out, one-day event for fans of the hit horror multiplayer game.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Dead by Daylight video game, which has featured crossovers with several horror franchises, allows one player to take on the persona of a Killer and the other four to play as Survivors. The Killer has to hunt down the Survivors and sacrifice them to a force known as the Entity, while the Survivors have to avoid being caught and power up the exit gates by fixing a series of generators.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere is no better moment than the 10th anniversary to share this news,\u201d said Jason Blum, founder and CEO of Blumhouse Atomic Monster. \u201cThordur is the filmmaker we trust to carry Dead by Daylight from the screen you play on to the big screen you watch in theaters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBlum\u2019s co-founder and CEO James Wan said, \u201cOne million people step into Dead by Daylight daily, and this adaptation brings them the world they love most, from Greenville to The MacMillan Estate. Thordur understands that the terror only lands if you care about who\u2019s running, and The Damned proved he can make you feel the walls closing in. That is exactly the instinct this film needs on screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStephen Mulrooney, chief product officer for Behaviour Interactive and producer of the Dead by Daylight movie, praised Palsson\u2019s \u201cdistinct vision, atmospheric storytelling and ability to build tension,\u201d which he said makes him \u201cthe perfect creative voice to bring our universe to life in a way that will resonate with both longtime fans and new audiences alike.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWan, Blum and Mulrooney are producers on the film. Behaviour Interactive\u2019s Remi Racine;,Atomic Monster\u2019s Michael Clear and Judson Scott, Blumhouse\u2019s Ryan Turek, and Striker Entertainment\u2019s Russell Binder are executive producers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tA graduate of the UK\u2019s National Film and Television School with an MA in Directing Fiction, Palsson created Iceland\u2019s first Netflix Original series The Valhalla Murders in 2020. Last year, his debut feature film The Damned premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and was released in the US.<\/p>\n

\n\tPalsson is repped by Sayle Screen, CAA, Sycamore Media and Jackoway Tyerman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 10 years, Dead by Daylight is getting the horror film treatment with director Thordur Palsson helming the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":868454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[337006,341571,147601,171,353622,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-868453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-behaviour-interactive","tag-blumhouse-atomic-monster","tag-dead-by-daylight","tag-entertainment","tag-thordur-palsson","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116753113191497785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}