Five Nights at Freddy’s movie gets a release date only eight years after it was announced
We got our first official look at Freddy Fazbear, too.
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A paltry eight years after wefirst heard rumblings of it, we’ve finally gotten our first shot of the upcoming silver screen version of Five Nights at Freddy’s. What’s more, we’ve even got a release date. Blumhouse Productions announced via its Instagram page that Five Nights at Freddy’s (the movie) will release in cinemas and on the Peacock streaming service on October 27 this year.
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The picture gives us a first look atFreddy Fazbear’s Pizza, the restaurant (or chain of restaurants) in which the FNAF games take place. Standing outside, we can see the titular Mr Fazbear accompanied by a child who may or may not bePiper Rubio, who is listed as one of the film’s cast members.
And that’s your lot, I’m afraid. No sign of any other cast members, including once and future Shaggy Matthew Lillard, who wasunveiled as the actorplaying villainous Fazbear founder William Afton last December. Still, it looks like the film has managed to capture FNAF’s disconcerting and sinister vibe.
It’s been a long road from the first whispers of a Five Nights at Freddy’s movie to today. A film version was first reported to be in the works at KatzSmith Productions in 2015, but presumably fell through. Blumhouse picked up the rights to make a movie based on the games in 2017, but delays set in after FNAF creator Scott Cawthorn decided to postpone everything until he settled on the perfect screenplay. Finally, the filmlost its director—Chris Columbus—in 2021.
But it looks like production finally got going under directorEmma Tammi, and it’ll only be six short months before the FNAF series makes it transition to the big screen. Better late than never (or I hope so, anyway).
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