Shazam director swore he'd never do another IP movie again after "crazy" backlash from DC fans, but Until Dawn's script was just too good to pass up: "I had to do it"

The cast of Until Dawn .

Until Dawn director David F. Sandberg has revealed what convinced him to take on another IP-based movie, despite swearing off them after the "crazy" backlash to his DC Comics adaptations Shazam! and Shazam! Fury of the Gods.

"What I loved about the script [is] that it wasn't trying to recreate the game," the filmmaker tells GamesRadar+, when we ask whether he felt any pressure giving Supermassive's butterfly effect-based title the Hollywood treatment. "Trying to condense 10 hours into two, or something like that. But it is scary still, even though we're doing a new thing.