‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Director on the Lack of Gore and Sequel Plans: ‘We’re Excited to Keep Making Movies in This World’
variety.comEthan Shanfeld SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” currently in theaters and streaming on Peacock.
Have you ever been enjoying an afternoon at Chuck E. Cheese and thought, “What if these singing animatronics were operated by the spirits of dead children?
And what if, when they’re finished strumming fake guitars, they locked the doors to the building and tried to murder me?” That’s (basically) the idea behind “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” Hollywood’s latest video game adaptation that’s set to be the sleeper horror hit of the fall.
Directed by Emma Tammi, who co-wrote the script with Seth Cuddleback and franchise creator Scott Cawthon, “FNAF” stars Josh Hutcherson as Mike, a security guard working the graveyard shift at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, an abandoned arcade restaurant.
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