‘Five Nights At Freddy’s’: Is The Blumhouse Adaptation Still Happening?
For those of us clamoring for Five Nights at Freddy’s updates, don’t get too excited. The scary Blumhouse video game adaptation has made little progress over the past few years. Why is development taking so long? Jason Blum has some answers. The news isn’t great, but it could be a lot worse…
In a recent interview with Collider, he happened to drop some interesting truth bombs about Five Nights at Freddy’s. The bad news? The project has lost its director. Chris Columbus (dir. Home Alone, Harry Potter) has left after signing on way back in 2018. But why did the Hollywood heavyweight drop out?
“That is classified information,” said Blum, cagey as usual.
Here’s what else the producer had to say:
“We’ve written multiple scripts, and we’ve got where we’re threading a needle, which is doing justice to Five Nights at Freddy’s and making Scott (Cawthon) happy. The only way that we would go about it is giving Scott … I don’t want to do something that Scott doesn’t like. Let me say that a different way. I don’t have the right to do anything Scott doesn’t like. Basically, Scott has kind of like the equivalent of ‘final cut’ and it’s taken longer than I hoped to get the right story.”
But is the adaptation still in the works? Seems like it is—which is great—considering the hype surrounding the project is still mountain-high. The cerebral, nostalgia-fused property feels like a distinctly fresh type of horror for Blumhouse, and we’re still interested to see how they intend on pulling it off.
Subsequently, the 2014 game of the same name concerns a night shift employee at a birthday party venue stuffed full of horrifying animatronic characters. Twist, they’re alive and hungry for human death. Over the past near-decade, the Five Night’s at Freddy’s universe has undergone extensive worldbuilding. The franchise has since seen a fistful of sequels and spin-offs, giving the filmmakers a healthy amount to work with.
The most impressive element of Five Night’s at Freddy’s is the game’s unmatched atmosphere and overall energy. Millennials will all comprehend the liminal setting and surreal monsters, which could be why the property is so successful. If the adaptation can pull off the vibes, it may very well be a hit. Finding a more tapped-in creative to direct could be a good move, considering how modern the vintage horrors of Five Night At Freddy’s are.
Lastly, how do you feel about the Five Night’s at Freddy’s Blumhouse adaptation? Can the modern Roger Cormen horror factory pull this strange project off? Let me know on Twitter via @joshkorngut. I’m always down to chat about anything related to Five Night’s at Freddy’s.
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