Making Until Dawn Was More Challenging Than Either Shazam Film

Until Dawn, Sony’s adaptation of Supermassive Games’ breakout 2015 interactive horror game, is out today. According to director David F. Sandberg, it was more complex to make than his previous films, including Shazam and its sequel. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Sandberg recalled his excitement over returning to the horror genre after wrapping up Shazam! Fury of the Gods. As THR notes, the film was plagued by last-minute production snafus. Chief among them were the 11th-hour rewrites for its mid-credit scene, which required him to remotely direct Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman cameo—a cameo he wasn’t aware would be used in the film’s marketing, rather than serving as a surprise for folks who stuck around after the film ended. Put that in combination with the uncertainty the Shazam films existed in when James Gunn and Peter Safran took over DC Studios, and him missing the film’s premiere due to covid, and you’ve got a pretty stressful film production memory he was happy to ha ... Read full article.