'Five Nights at Freddy's' Movie Based Off the Mobile Horror Game Coming Soon?
Warner Brothers is bravely doing a film adaptation of a popular mobile game called "Five Nights at Freddy's." The mobile game is said to be constantly on the top list of games downloaded in app stores. It is a horror survival game, with players taking on the role of a night-shift security guard who works in a pizza parlor. The game was created by Scott Cawthon.
The pizza place is famous for its animatronic band, which includes a big teddy bear, which plays kiddie tunes during the day. These animatronic animals however turn into something more sinister at night and are known for killing security personnel who are on night duty.
The Hollywood Reporter first shared the news about Warner Bros. acquiring the rights to adaptation. Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment will produce the film, with Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg.
The game's creator, Scott Cawthon, said that "the story 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." Seth Grahame-Smith on the other hand says that they will work with Cawthon to make "an insane, terrifying and weirdly adorable movie."
A further description of gameplay as reported in SlashFilm may give an idea of how the film may be adapted: "The games feature a pretty unsettling art design and a backstory which involves some really nasty actions related to the animatronic animals."
No writer is attached to the film as of yet. It will be executive produced by Adam Stone and Jay Ireland, while Jon Berg and Nik Mavinkurve will oversee the film for Warner Bros.
Lee, Grahame-Smith and Katzenberg are no strangers to the horror film genre. Lee had a hand in producing Liam Neeson's "Run All Night" and is finishing work on the "Poltergeist" remake. Grahame-Smith and Katzenberg are currently working on a "Beetlejuice" sequel.
