‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Movie Still Moving Forward
By George Robbins
Horror movies are having their own type of resurgence over the past decade that are making people appreciate them again. One of the biggest contributor’s to this resurgence of horror films to the world is the Blumhouse production company run by the eponymous Jason Blum. They are responsible for most of the new age of horror cinema which made the genre step back into the spotlight. There have been horror films over the years since the slasher age of horror films which have made horror fans giddy with excitement, but an everyday person would not be interested. The newest era of films have some sort of thriller element to them which makes it possible for more people to get into the films they are meant to watch.
Blum has created a name for himself due to the wide variety of horror and thriller films that have been made under his company’s supervision. Not only the wide variety of films that have been made, but also the fact that the films have been low budget, high return films that have made his company a lot of money over the years. While not every film that has been made since the company started working on films have been well received, this hasn’t changed the fact that their films are generally box office success stories. They always make way more than they cost to make which is usually a few million dollars. Most people think that budget can make or break a film, but his company proves that this is not really true.
Although the pandemic has currently halted many productions, there are still films being worked on in other ways such as script writing and getting production prepared. Blumhouse is currently working on a couple of different films that have been in development, and most recently Jason Blum has said that the film adaptation for the game ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s‘ is still moving forward. The movie has been in the works since it was initially planned back in 2015 and is still moving ahead even now. It was originally picked up as an idea for a film back in 2015 by Warner Bros., but in 2017 it was handed over to Blumhouse Productions to work on. Like other films that Blumhouse has under their belt that people are worried aren’t being worked on, the movie is still being given some kind of focus.
The ‘Five Nights’ game series has become one loved by countless horror game aficionados that have found the plot of the series to be quite complex. The creator of the games, Scott Cawthon, has created a massive and diverse universe that is now perfect for a film to be made about it. There is murder and mystery as well as straight up terror found throughout that series of games and it makes for an interesting narrative to follow in a movie plot-line. The overall sense of dread found throughout the games means that Blumhouse might just be able to capture the spirit of the games and according to Jason Blum, we could be seeing it come out some time in the not too distant future.