While not my personal taste, there's no denying the massive enterprise the 'FNAF' video game franchise has become these many years. Beginning as a solo project for creator Scott Cawthon, there are now 15 games in the series with another on the way for the newly released PS5, multiple books, toys, and other merchandise. Naturally one would have expected a film adaptation right? Well to be honest not this far into the series' life.
Originally announced back in 2015 getting a 'Five Nights' film has been surprisingly difficult to get off the ground. Warner Bros. were the first to helm the project with Gil Kenan (Monster House) hired to direct. Then...really nothing until 2017 when Warner announced it had lost the rights and rumor has it that the script they were going to use was retooled into the god-awful 'Banana Splits Movie' released last year so maybe the shift was for the best.
Now under the eye of Blumhouse (because what horror project isn't these days?) the film saw delay after delay until this week they've finally got things in place. Scott Cawthon took to Reddit with the announcement.
"Filming starts in Spring!!!" Cawthon stated while also mentioning the current screenplay saying that "It has the best pieces from all the screenplays!" "It's fun, it's scary, and it has a great central story!" You can see the Reddit post in full by clicking here where he goes a little bit more in depth with the many rejected scripts.
The film has yet to have a release date but it's safe to estimate at a likely 2022 release date. Keep an eye out here for more information.
SOURCE: Bloody-Disgusting.com, Reddit.com, Wikipedia.org
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