The director of Until Dawn and The Quarry has revealed that he is working on another full-scale horror title, which is tentatively planned for release by 2026.
Supermassive is known for its narrative adventures within the horror genre. Over the past ten years, the BAFTA-winning UK studio has released both bigger games (Until Dawn, Il-Barriera) as well as a series of smaller, episodic titles under The Dark Pictures banner.
Speaking to VGC in a recent interview, studio director Will Byles – who directed both of Supermassive’s larger horror games – confirmed that it was his intention to continue creating full-scale narrative adventures with the same gender.
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“I like the luxury of being able to really explore the characters and you get that with a longer story,” he explained. To see also : The Origins of 7 Popular Sports. “It bothers some people, because they get bored with it, but I really like the fact that you can go deep with the characters and explore the relationships in a way that would be more difficult on a shorter story.”
Discussing his next project specifically, Byles said it would be equivalent in size to this year’s The Quarry – which was published by 2K – and suggested it could deviate from the youthful horror explored in the last two his outings.
“We started working on [the next game],” he said. “I can’t tell you much about it, but we started. Again, it’s the same kind of horror genre, we’re sticking with that. It’s equivalent in size to The Quarry… and that’s about as far as I can say without giving too much away.”
He added: “Potentially we could be a bit like… I don’t know how much more we can spread the young horror thing, because especially when we try to stir it up, the number of surprises you can add to it becomes limited.
“The Dark Pictures explores hundreds of variants of the horror genre. What we’re looking at now, and I can’t tell you exactly what it is, is a bit of a deviation away from that kind of standard, but it’s still very classic horror.”
Asked if fans should wait the seven years that have passed between Until Dawn and The Quarry to play the game, Byles indicated that he was planning a much shorter turnaround of around four years. “No, it certainly won’t be the seven years it took between Sal-Dawn,” he said. “It will be 2025, or maybe 2026.”
Supermassive was recently fully acquired by Danish entertainment company Nordisk, claiming the sale will give it more ammunition with which to create its projects.
Evidence of the studio’s growing stature could be seen at this year’s The Quarry, which featured a Hollywood cast including David Arquette (Scream), Ariel Winter (Modern Family), Justice Smith (Jurassic World ), Brenda Song (Dollface), Lance Henriksen (Aliens) and Lin Shaye (A Nightmare on Elm Street).
Byles indicated that the company was continuing to be ambitious in its pursuit of acting talent, and said he believed it wouldn’t be long before Hollywood’s biggest actors lead video game casts.
“I don’t think this is far. It’s mostly about the number of days we have for it, because it’s very expensive, and shooting it takes a long time. So that becomes a bit of an issue,” he explained. “Also when you have someone like Tom Cruise, it becomes what could be an entire game’s budget just on him. So, we will come down to that.
“However, there is an argument that these are businesses and they need to make money back, there is a certain budget that if you go beyond you cannot sell more copies of the game – unless Tom Cruise adds a few million [of himself. ]]
He added: “We thought we would never get David Arquette. We push it. And now, people take our calls in a way that was more difficult before when it was not a medium they did not understand. The younger ones are much easier, because they know these things.”
