On Oct. 27 the long-awaited ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s” film hits theaters and Peacock streaming service.
The movie is about “a troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the late shift at Freddy’s won’t be so easy to make it through,” according to the official synopsis.”
The adaptation of the mascot horror, a genre that blends the aesthetics of Chuck E. Cheese and slasher films, pioneer will not be a direct adaptation. Still, the director and writers have promised that there will be plenty of easter eggs for fans.
“When we were writing it we were thinking of easter eggs for the fans,” said Emma Tammi The film’s director, in an interview with ScreenRant.
The film is directed by Emma Tammi (“The Wind”) and includes the talents of Josh Hutcherson (“Hunger Games”), Elizabeth Lale (“You” and “Once Upon a Time”), and the ever-charismatic Matthew Lillard (“Scream” and “Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed”).
The animatronics that stalk the halls of Fazbear’s have all been done by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, said director Emma Tammi in an interview with IGN.
“The film is set in the 2000s and we’re flashing back to 80’s and 90’s eras and I think we wanted to […] pay homage to those time periods and the way that movies were made,” Tammi said.”
The film has been in various stages of development at Warner Brothers since 2015, only a year after the release of the first game.
With producer Seth Grahame-Smith saying at the time that the filmmakers wanted to make an “insane, terrifying and weirdly adorable movie,” the use of the word adorable makes the quote read like it is from someone who just read the Sparknotes of the Intellectual property (IP) they just bought.
The project languished in development hell until around 2018 when the FNAF film found its way into the hands of modern horror juggernauts, Blumhouse Productions, which would eventually be the ones to bring it to the big screen.
“One of the reasons this movie took so long to do was that we had to make a movie for fans of Five Nights at Freddy’s,” said Jason Blum, Blumhouse co-founder, at the 2023 Blumhouse New York Comic Con panel.
The second high profile video game adaptation of this year following the rapturous success of Illumination’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” If the Five Nights at Freddy’s film were to succeed it could paint a very clear picture for the face of cinema moving forward, Video game adaptations.
