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Five Nights at Freddy’s Film Details

Five Nights at Freddy’s is a 2023 American supernatural horror film based on the video game franchise of the same name created by Scott Cawthon. Directed by Emma Tammi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Cawthon and Seth Cuddeback, from a story by Cawthon, Chris Lee Hill, and Tyler MacIntyre, the film stars Josh Hutcherson as a troubled security guard who accepts a night-time job at an abandoned family entertainment center, where he discovers its four animatronic mascots are alive and kill anyone that is still there after midnight. Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Matthew Lillard appear in supporting roles.

Jason Blum served as a producer on the film through his Blumhouse Productions banner, in association with Cawthon’s Scott Cawthon Productions banner. Development of a Five Nights at Freddy’s film adaptation began in April 2015, with the involvement of Warner Bros. Pictures. Roy Lee, David Katzenberg, and Seth Grahame-Smith were set to produce it, with Gil Kenan announced as director and co-writer. After several delays in production, the Warner Bros. version was no longer moving forward and Kenan dropped out of the project. In March 2017, Blumhouse Productions was announced as the new production company, with Chris Columbus set to direct and co-write. Columbus also ultimately left the project, and Emma Tammi was announced as his replacement in October 2022. The main cast were confirmed in December, while other cast additions were signed in March 2023. Principal photography began in February 2023 in New Orleans and ended in April.

Five Nights at Freddy’s was released on Peacock on October 26, 2023, and was theatrically released a day later, on October 27, by Universal Pictures. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, and has grossed $10.3 million worldwide.

STORY

Mike Schmidt, a mall security guard, is fired after assaulting a negligent father who he mistook for a kidnapper. He is sent to visit career counselor Steve Raglan, who offers him work as a night guard at an abandoned family diner known as Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. Though initially reluctant, Mike accepts the offer after social services threaten to take custody of his younger sister Abby and pass her over to his estranged aunt Jane.

On his first night, Mike falls asleep and dreams about the kidnapping and presumed murder of his brother Garrett, before seeing five children who witnessed the kidnapping, but they run away. On the second night, Mike’s dream is repeated, but when he attempts to confront one of the children, he is attacked and wakes up. Mike meets police officer Vanessa Shelly, who notices his wounds and patches him up. Vanessa shows him around the restaurant and tells him that the place closed in the 1980s after five children were murdered there; the bodies were never found.

On the third night, Jane hires a group of juvenile delinquents to vandalize the restaurant in order to get Mike fired, an act which would enable her to gain custody of Abby. As the break-in occurs, the restaurant’s animatronic mascots – Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Foxy, and Bonnie – come alive and murder the delinquents. One of the vandals is Abby’s babysitter Max, which requires Mike to bring Abby to his next shift. When the mascots activate that night, they befriend Abby, but are hostile toward and corner Mike and Vanessa, though they survive. Mike discovers that the mascots are possessed by the ghosts of the murdered children, whose leader, a blonde boy, consistently mentions a “yellow rabbit”.

In between shifts, Mike takes sleeping pills to help him visualize Garrett’s kidnapping, which went cold years ago. On the fourth night, Vanessa panics over Abby’s increasing friendship with the mascots and warns Mike to not bring her to the restaurant again. Mike gets Jane to babysit Abby, much to Abby’s frustration, as he goes back to the restaurant during the day and overdoses on his sleeping pills.

Inside the dream, the five children appear again and tell Mike that he can stay with Garrett forever, in exchange for Abby. At Mike’s house, Jane is murdered by “Golden Freddy”, a variant of Freddy Fazbear possessed by the blonde boy, who takes Abby back to the restaurant by hitching a ride with a taxi driver. Mike is repeatedly attacked in his dream and wakes up strapped to a torture device that attempts to tear off his face. He escapes the device and flees the restaurant with Vanessa’s help.

After Mike explains his dream, Vanessa reveals that she is the daughter of William Afton, the serial killer who murdered Garrett and the other five children, and that his victims’ souls and the mascots are under his control. Realizing that William is planning to murder Abby, Mike rushes to the restaurant with the necessary equipment to disable the mascots. At the restaurant, Chica attempts to murder Abby but Mike arrives and saves her. Mike is attacked and separated from Abby. The mascots are eventually defeated, but they are reactivated by Steve, who arrives wearing the “yellow rabbit” suit. Steve reveals himself to be William before knocking Mike unconscious.

Knowing that the mascots need to understand the truth, Abby draws a picture of William murdering the children. She shows her drawing to the mascots, and they turn on William. The Cupcake, another one of the mascots, bites off part of William’s suit, which triggers the suit’s internal springlock mechanisms which severely wounds him. The mascots drag him into the back room where the blonde boy locks the door. Mike and Abby carry a wounded Vanessa out of the restaurant, though she falls into a coma afterwards and is taken to a hospital. Mike continues to look after Abby and they return to their normal lives.

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PRODUCTION

Development

In April 2015, Warner Bros. Pictures announced it had acquired the film rights to the Five Nights at Freddy’s video game franchise with Roy Lee, David Katzenberg, and Seth Grahame-Smith set to produce the adaptation. Grahame-Smith stated that they would collaborate with franchise creator Scott Cawthon “to make an insane, terrifying and weirdly adorable movie”. In July 2015, Gil Kenan signed to direct the film from a screenplay co-written with Tyler Burton Smith.

In March 2017, Cawthon tweeted announcing Blumhouse Productions as the film’s new production company after Warner Bros. Pictures put the project in turnaround. In May 2017, producer Jason Blum said he was excited and working closely with Cawthon on the film. In June 2017, Kenan said he was no longer directing the film.

In February 2018, Chris Columbus was announced as Kenan’s replacement as director and writer, besides producing the film alongside Blum and Cawthon. In August 2018, Cawthon revealed that the first draft of the film’s script, which he wrote with co-author of the Five Nights at Freddy’s novel trilogy, Kira Breed-Wrisley, was completed, and it would involve the events of the series’ first game. That same month, Blum wrote on Twitter that the film was aiming for a 2020 release. In November, Cawthon announced that he scrapped the script, despite being liked by Columbus and Blum, as he “had a different idea for [the story], one that I liked better”. It contributed to a further delay to the film, for which Cawthon took full responsibility. In June 2020, during an interview with Fandom, Blum, when asked about the progress of the film, stated:

“It’s super active, so I really feel like we have a very good shot at seeing a Five Nights at Freddy’s movie…I feel like it’s really moving forward; it’s not stalled or anything else. It’s moving forward rapidly. I don’t want to put a timeline on it, but soon we’ll get a movie. I feel really confident about that.”

In September 2021, Blum revealed that Columbus was no longer involved with the project, but it was still in active development. In August 2022, Blum announced that Jim Henson’s Creature Shop would be working on the animatronic characters for the film. In October, Emma Tammi was announced as Columbus’ replacement as director, in addition to co-writing the screenplay alongside Cawthon and Seth Cuddeback.