Gary Dauberman, the writer and producer behind It and Annabelle, is set to adapt Bloober Team’s psychological horror game, The Medium, into a feature film.
As first reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Dauberman has acquired the screen rights to the tense title. A writer and director for the project are still to be announced.
“The Medium is a natural fit for the big screen, with its compelling narrative and highly cinematic visuals,” Dauberman stated.
“My conversation with CEO Piotr Babieno revealed our shared passion for horror and his forward-thinking vision for the genre. I’m confident that anything Bloober creates will advance horror in uniquely terrifying ways, and I’m thrilled to collaborate with them.”
Babieno added, “Adapting games to film often requires balancing many perspectives, but with The Medium, I believe Gary is the ideal partner. We were aligned from our very first discussion, and every conversation since has only strengthened that conviction.”
The Medium is a deeply atmospheric psychological horror game centered on a core theme: how shifting perspectives alter perception. IGN awarded it an 8/10, praising it as “brilliantly paced and palpably tense—a psychological horror adventure that’s all thriller, no filler.”
Bloober Team has acknowledged that releasing The Medium signaled a need to evolve, a decision that paved the way for larger projects like the Silent Hill 2 remake and the upcoming Cronos: The New Dawn.
In a previous interview with IGN, director and producer Jacek Zieba described The Medium as a turning point for the studio’s ambition to create bigger, more ambitious games. “After The Medium, it became clear we needed to evolve,” Zieba explained. “It felt like time to close the chapter on that style of adventure game—Layers of Fear, Observer, and The Medium—which were experimental, story-focused titles with fixed camera perspectives. We decided, ‘Okay, let’s move on from that.’”
If you’re finding it hard to keep track of all the adaptations in the works—and who could blame you, given the recent announcements of a new Friday the 13th prequel game and a film based on Kinetic Games’ spooky hit Phasmophobia—you can catch up with our complete rundown of video game movies slated for 2025 and beyond.
