There are just a couple of weeks until the release of the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie from Blumhouse, and we’re getting a drip feed of new information turning into a steady stream.
It’s understandable to expect the movie might feature some nods to the many entries and spinoffs of the FNAF series, and director Emma Tammi suggests they’ve packed as many in as they can.
A Security Breach
Speaking to Collider, Tammi explained why they put a lot of winks and nods into the movie
“We were definitely focused on planting Easter eggs throughout, but I think it was mostly in an effort to make sure that the first one was full of them for the fans on the first view, and hopefully on the second and third view, too. Just continual things to discover, should people want to re-watch it. Less concerned with how it might impact potential sequels, but of course, that’s been in the back of our heads, too, and hopefully, we’ll be lucky enough to explore that.”
Tammi even suggested where fans should be looking for them in the movie by adding, ” I would say check out the security monitors.”
The film follows a troubled security guard as he begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy’s won’t be an easy task as the animatronics come to life,
The movie stars Josh Hutcherson (Ultraman, The Hunger Games), Elizabeth Lail (You, Mack & Rita), Piper Rubio (Holly & Ivy, Unstable), Kat Conner Sterling (We Have A Ghost, 9-1-1), with Mary Stuart Masterson (Blindspot, Fried Green Tomatoes) and Matthew Lillard (Scooby Doo, Scream). Five Nights at Freddy’s is directed by Emma Tammi (The Wind, Blood Moon) and is written by Scott Cawthon, Emma Tammi, and Seth Cuddeback.
Five Nights at Freddy’s has made back its budget and more already because of the sale of its streaming & theatrical distribution rights. With a pretty strong fandom and trailers showing the film might even be good, it means it could be another smash for the most successful horror studio around.
We shall see just how well Five Nights at Freddy’s does when it’s released on October 27, 2023, in theaters and on Peacock.
