‘Until Dawn’ Movie Leaves Out Game’s Writers in Credits

The Until Dawn movie came out on April 25, but besides the mixed reviews, another problem has come up. A former Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) narrative director shared on LinkedIn that Sony did not give credit to the Until Dawn video game’s writers or developers in the movie’s credits.

Kim MacAskill, who used to work at Sony, spoke about it in a post. She said: “As a former Sony Interactive Entertainment and PlayStation Narrative Director who was firmly told that the IP I personally created would NEVER be credited to me as I was salaried (no royalties, no control, no ownership, no acknowledgement) I am struggling with the difference between Neil Druckmann’s favour and that of others in your company.”

MacAskill pointed out that while the movie’s director and writers were named, the original game creators were not. She said, “I’ve just left Until Dawn where the film director, writers etc. were all credited but instead of you mentioning the leading game dev(s) who created this ICONIC game you’re clearly proud of, you just wrapped it as ‘based on the Sony game’.”

The original Until Dawn game was written by Larry Fessenden and Graham Reznick. It was directed by Will Byles and Nik Bowen, and produced by Pete Samuels. None of these people were mentioned in the movie credits, along with many others who worked hard on the game.

MacAskill added, “They spent years breaking their brains to make something incredible and the world DESERVES to know their names… instead… No credit. No thanks. No honour.”

She ended her post by saying, “Why should IP creators keep working for you? Film and TV, which is grotesque at the best of times, still own the need to note the importance of credit.”

MacAskill also started a petition asking Sony to fix the credits and add the original game writers. As of now, the petition has 89 signatures.

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