Five Nights at Freddy’s – Movie Smack Talk

Mr. Columbus, are you ready for Freddy? #FiveNightsatFreddys pic.twitter.com/4F7QEnw16x

— Blumhouse (@blumhouse) February 12, 2018

You have probably heard the name Chris Columbus before. He’s the director behind projects like Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Mrs. Doubtfire and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. You know, just some of the most memorable films ever made. No big deal.

According to a report from Deadline, Columbus is going to try his hand in the horror department. He is teaming up with Blumhouse to create the screen adaptation of Scott Cawthon’s extremely popular video game Five Nights at Freddy’s, which features a security guard battling animatronic robots that come to life.

It’ll be interesting to see how much they stick to the source material here. The key to the game is to survive a night locked inside the building with these creepy a** robots. It’s basically an extremely dark version Chuck E. Cheese. Or a realistic version of Chuck E. Cheese, depending on the location of your Chuck E. Cheese.

It’s really exciting to see Blumhouse and Columbus team up. Blumhouse has taken over the horror genre, and Columbus is one of the best filmmakers alive. As Deadline reports, his credits “count more than $4.1 billion at the global box office.”

Now the question is: who will play the security guard? Jonah Hill?

The extremely popular 2014 video game series created by Scott Cawthon is getting a movie adaptation, and this really shouldn’t surprise anyone. The terrifying game, which features malfunctioning animatronic animal characters, has been a huge success online.

Just go on YouTube and you’ll see what we’re talking about. Heat Vision was the first to report the news, claiming the film will be produced by Roy Lee (The LEGO Movie) and Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg of KatzSmith Productions.

The project is currently out to writers, which means this film still has a long road to travel. But everyone is looking forward to going down the road together.

Grahame-Smith said…

“We’re looking forward to working with Scott to make an insane, terrifying and weirdly adorable movie.”

And even though video games adapted into movies are usually terrible, the creator of this game believes this one will be different.

“The story really lends itself to being a movie and it taps into a largely unexplored niche of horror that a lot of people will be able to relate to.”

I am still not convinced, but I do think this has the chance to be successful. The game is already creepy enough on a small computer screen. Can you imagine watching it inside a theater?