David F. Sandberg, director of "Shazam," has decided to take a break from superhero movies for a while and film the terrifying things that happen to people on the mountain. He has been tapped to direct the film adaptation of "Until Dawn," the first supermassive cinematic horror-choice adventure, the precursor to "Quarry" and "The Dark Pictures Anthology," among others.

At least for now, Until Dawn is still available on PlayStation. The game tells the story of a group of hapless teenagers stuck in the mountains and the bloody horror that ensues. The game stars actors Rami Malek and Hayden Panettiere as the teenagers and Peter Stormare as the world's angriest therapist.

Whether the stars of the game will reprise their roles in the film remains to be seen, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, production company Screen Gems calls the film "an R-rated love letter to the horror genre, featuring an ensemble cast."

It certainly sounds like "Until Dawn."

The announcement follows Sony's sustained push to bring a number of major video games to the silver screen, a process that last year spawned the (not particularly well-received) film Gran Turismo and the (well-received) TV show The Last of Us. The world is waiting with baited breath for the explosive arrival of the "Knack Cinematic Universe."

I rather like "Until Dawn," but I don't know if that will translate well to the film adaptation. Whereas "The Last of Us" was a linear story that probably wasn't too difficult to port to a TV series, "Until Dawn" lived and died by its own choices and the various branching plot lines that were possible as a result. Like other Supermassive games, it had a whole section of the UI dedicated to tracking exactly what decisions you made and why they were really bad ideas.

Take that away, and you end up with a very ordinary horror movie with a decent twist, which I won't spoil here. Even if Sandberg had a track record of making horror films like "Lights Out" and "Annabelle: Creation," it seems an odd choice to adapt the entire Sony catalog. Also, they are literally making a "Gran Turismo" movie.

No word yet on a release date for the "Until Dawn" movie, but given that it has just been announced, it seems likely that we will have to wait a few years.