The 2015 choose-your-own-adventure-style horror romp Until Dawn is the latest video game adaptation to hit theaters this month. And while the film itself hasn’t impressed, opening in fifth place at the box office its opening weekend, there’s a deeper controversy that lifts the veil on a worrisome trend in gaming and how they’re being brought to the big screen.
Over the weekend, Kim MacAskill, a 10-year veteran of the film and video game industry posted on LinkedIn about the lack of proper credit given to those who originally penned the survival horror PlayStation exclusive. MacAskill, who worked with PlayStation between 2022 and 2024 according to her LinkedIn, said that she saw the new film and unhappily discovered that its credits didn’t list Larry Fessenden, Graham Reznick, Will Byles, or any of the others responsible for writing Until Dawn’s story.
