As the terrifying animatronics in Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s are poised to spring to life once production begins in February, so too are the characters that will encounter them.
Deadline reports today that Matthew Lillard (Thir13en Ghosts, Scream) and Josh Hutcherson (Tragedy Girls) have joined the cast in the long anticipated video game adaptation.
There are no character details as of yet, though it feels like a safe bet that one or both will encounter the lethal mascots of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza joint.
What we do know for sure is that Five Nights at Freddy’s will begin production in New Orleans this February with director Emma Tammi (The Wind) at the helm.
Even more exciting is that Jim Henson’s Creature Shop is hard at work on the monstrous animatronics.
Tammi, Scott Cawthon, and Seth Cuddeback wrote the screenplay for Five Nights at Freddy’s. Blumhouse is producing the film in association with Striker Entertainment. Scott Cawthon and Jason Blum will produce the film. Russell Binder is an executive producer.
Five Nights at Freddy’s is a horror video game series in which you must survive the titular five nights at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza from the dangers of animatronic characters.
The wildly popular survival horror video game series sees players playing as a nighttime security guard slowly realizing his overnight job won’t be so easy with the characters spring to life. Players must use security cameras, lights, doors, and vents to evade the hostile animatronics. Five Nights at Freddy’s first launched in 2014 and has since amassed a minimum of eight games in the main series with multiple spinoff games. The potent jump scares and unsettling plot effectively catapulted the game into the zeitgeist and fans have been clamoring for a movie adaptation since.
Stay tuned for more details about production as we learn it.
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