Five Nights at Freddy's movie in the works at Warner Bros
 

Warner Bros wants to make a Five Nights At Freddy's movie.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...ghts-at-787061

Of course they do. But hey, at least it ain't Winnie the Pooh or Mulan.

What?!
 

Are you kidding me?


This is probably the most ridiculous idea I had ever heard. A movie based on a horror game with puppets? Are you serious?!

Nah, I'm pretty sure live-action Winnie the Pooh is more ridiculous. But I feel ya...

Depends on what they do with the animatronics.

Whoa. That's crazy.

I'd be willing to give it a try, though. But I probably won't be too optimistic.

How is this a ridiculous idea? In the genre of horror there are far more ridiculous ideas than this. I've actually thought that this concept would make a pretty good basis for a horror movie and I'm surprised no one has ever decided to make a horror movie based around creepy sentient or haunted animatronic characters (as far as I know). Who hasn't found animatronic characters from a Chuck E Cheese or theme park creepy? I haven't played the games but I have read a lot about the ambiguous backstory and the theories behind it and I would be interested in seeing a movie based on the game's story.

I bet this will be like a horror version of Night At The Museum.

This overrated game had enough story for it to be made into a movie. Hell I didn't know it had sequels. Oh well its no more stupid then giving Angry Birds a movie or cartoon series.

It caught the YouTube kids pretty hard. The only way you get away with sh*tting out three games in less than a year and make bank is by catching and exploiting (man)children. It's lightning in a bottle for sure. The dude is doing the right thing for himself by striking while the iron is hot and milking this thing dry. The fact that he turned his inability to not create things that look like terrifying trash into a movie deal is admirable.

I'm just wondering how much time this movie has to be made and be released before the temperature has cooled and no one gives a sh*t. My guess is there's not a huge shelf life for this property. Maybe the novelty of the idea will make for a decent movie either way. Horror movies, more than any other genre, tend to do pretty well no matter how awful they are.

I think this would be a good chance to expand on the vague lore given in the games, but who knows what direction this could go.

It could be a good suspense film, with some well earned scares. But I'd imagine the lone night guard is going to be nixed in favor of a group of rowdy "teenagers" that wants to party and for some inexplicit reason there's no wi-fi or phone signal at the abandoned Freddie's the party is held at.

And they are all idiots and gets taken one by one, cue standard trope horror movie cliches.

Good, another horror movie that will rely on jumpscares.

First of all, what in the world is wrong with a live-action Mulan film? That's more plausible than a live-action Dumbo film or a live-action Winnie the Pooh movie. At least the main character of Mulan is a human and is based on an old Chinese legend.

Oh, and I feel like I'm the only person in the world who never found the animatronics at Chuckee Cheese scary or creepy at all. I had my 9th birthday at one, but I didn't really pay any attention to them. I was too busy at the arcade. Felt the same going there after that time too. Didn't find them scary or creepy. Now BONNIE in the games creep me out. lol

Anyway, I was wondering when someone would get around to making a movie based on this. After coming across Game Theory's theory about the first game back in October, I jokingly thought, "I could see someone making a movie about this". Lo and behold, here we are.

Personally, I could see the potential in a movie being made about this...if it's not centered around a bunch of teenagers, and as someone else mentioned, they could fill in the holes of the story that we all have to speculate on or come up with theories for.

Now, would I go see a movie like this...probably not. I'd expect it to be nothing but jump scares as opposed to having any decent story focus....but if it does turn out not to be completely cliche, I'd give it a shot.

All of that aside, how would you guys turn this game into a movie? What angle would you approach it? When would you have it take place?

This could be a really good cheesy horror flick, and I usually don't watch horror. But I really don't trust Hollywood to keep what made the games so effectively atmospheric, even if Scott Cawthon will be a part of it. For all we know, they'll just get some nobody actors as dumb teenagers who get trapped in the place at night and get killed off one-by-one instead of it being just a security guard who gets no dialogue as an effective vessel for the audience so they feel more vulnerable and fear-driven by what's happening.

Nope, that's too "different" and thought-provoking for Hollywood's current idea of what horror is. The truly scary stuff about FNaF to me was always the stuff you never saw. Not the jump-scares, not the creepy noises the animatronics make when they got close to you, just what wasn't told or seen by you the player. With Hollywood, it's always got to be what you see and doing it in such an over-the-top fashion. But hey, like I said, I don't watch horror movies, so I'm probably in no position to say all the newer ones are like that.

That teaser didn't do much for me. I do like how the animatronics look though.

Teaser was pretty awesome. Loved the fact that despite how overly complicated and bloated the current canon is, that the movie opted for the feel of the original game. Some poor unlucky shmuck got hired to be the night guard unaware that the animatronics come to life at night and are out to kill him. I'm sure there'll be lots of lore and such (William Afton is there after all), but I'm glad they're going back to the game's roots.

a new trailer will release tomorrow.
https://twitter.com/jason_blum/statu...96463123333120

Here's the new trailer