'Friday Nights at Freddy's' Film Rights to Be Acquired by Blumhouse Productions?
Blumhouse Productions is reportedly close to securing the film rights to the point-and-click survival horror video game "Friday Nights at Freddy's."
According to Deadline, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema pulled the film project from production several months ago, and numerous distributors have since expressed interest in picking up the rights to make a movie about the horror game.
In addition, game creator Scott Cawthon recently posted a photo on his Twitter account, hinting the potential acquisition of the video game's film rights by Blumhouse.
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"Five Nights at Freddy's" is a survival horror game about a night shift guard at a children's restaurant called Freddy Fazbear's Pizza who finds himself getting terrorized by a group of deranged animatronic robots. The first game in the franchise was such a massive hit that it produced four sequels.
At one point, Warner Bros. was reportedly prepared to move forward with the movie adaptation of "Five Nights at Freddy's," with "Poltergeist" director Gil Kenan helming the project.
However, in early 2017, Cawthon declared that the "Five Nights" movie was "back at square one," blaming the film industry "as a whole" for causing issues that blocked the movie from ever coming to fruition.
Though Cawthon's uncaptioned photo on Twitter, which shows a director's chair with the name "Freddy" written on it and a large screen projecting the logo of Blumhouse Productions, is far from an official confirmation, it seems to indicated that the "Five Nights at Freddy's" movie adaptation might finally be moving forward.
Blumhouse Productions is known for their low-budget but critically- and commercially-acclaimed horror films. They garnered great success in the horror genre with the highly-profitable "Paranormal Activity" film franchise, the controversial yet high-grossing "The Purge" film series, and the last two films helmed by M. Night Shyamalan including "Split."
The production company is currently enjoying box office success with Jordan Peele's horror movie, "Get Out."
