The ‘Five Nights At Freddy’s’ Movie Is Still Happening at Blumhouse!
Josh Korngut
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It’s been a long road for fans of the Five Nights At Freddy’s franchise waiting on the movie adaptation. Years ago Blumhouse announced that they’d be spearheading the movie version of the popular game series, but there’s been nothing except bad news in recent months. Have no fear though, Blumhouse boss Jason Blum recently took to the Internet to quell anxious fans.
If you’ve ever seen the comments on Blum’s personal posts, you’re familiar with the barrage of messages demanding updates on the Five Nights at Freddy’s film. So, I guess the tone of the following update comes as no surprise. At least fans have some good news to celebrate with.
In a 2021 interview with Collider, Jason Blum also gave some mysterious news about Five Nights at Freddy’s. But it wasn’t good news. Chris Columbus (dir. Home Alone, Harry Potter) left the project after signing on way back in 2018. But why did the Hollywood heavyweight drop out? “That is classified information,” said Blum, cagey as usual.
Here’s what else the producer had to say:
“We’ve written multiple scripts, and we’ve got where we’re threading a needle, which is doing justice to Five Nights at Freddy’s and making Scott (Cawthon) happy. The only way that we would go about it is giving Scott … I don’t want to do something that Scott doesn’t like. Let me say that a different way. I don’t have the right to do anything Scott doesn’t like. Basically, Scott has kind of like the equivalent of ‘final cut’ and it’s taken longer than I hoped to get the right story.
The FNAF games concern a night shift employee at a birthday party venue stuffed full of horrifying animatronic characters. Twist, they’re alive and hungry for human death. Over the past near-decade, the Five Nights at Freddy’s universe has undergone extensive worldbuilding. The franchise has since seen a fistful of sequels and spin-offs, giving the filmmakers a healthy amount to work with.
For more information on the troubled FNAF film adaptation check out the Development Hell podcast episode on the subject:
Lastly, how do you feel about the Five Nights at Freddy’s Blumhouse adaptation? Let me know on Twitter via @joshkorngut. I’m always down to chat about anything related to Five Night’s at Freddy’s.
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