'Five Nights at Freddy's' movie release date: Won't be ready for 2017 launch
The highly-anticipated video game adaptation film "Five Nights at Freddy's" movie won't be released next year. More than a year into the development, the script is still unfinished.
After being announced for development in April last year, the team behind "Five Nights at Freddy's" movie, which was inspired by Scott Cawthon's point-and-click survival horror video games series, is still working on the script.
The latest update given about the project was from last month on Steam, where Cawthon confirmed that the script for the "Five Nights at Freddy's" movie is still in development.
"The script is still being worked on. The people involved are taking the movie seriously, which is definitely a good thing," the game developer said.
Cawthon will be heavily involved in the production of "Five Nights at Freddy's" movie and envisions it as an "insane, terrifying and weirdly adorable movie."
It is unknown when the scriptwriting for the film started although director Gil Kenan admitted (to debunk speculations it was cancelled) last April that the "Five Nights at Freddy's" is in a "very long script development phase" and that he is "still working on it."
Updates about the "Five Night at Freddy's" movie have been scarce, which is not a shocker since the movie is slated for release in June 2018, at least according to its IMDB listing.
"Five Nights at Freddy's" takes place in a family restaurant called Freddy's Fazbear's Pizza, where animatronic animals sing and dance for show and quench their thirst for blood and murder when the day turns night.
In bringing the game to the big screen, Kenan plans to shy away from using computer-generated imagery (CGI) and instead make real-life animatronics with the help of Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
"We're looking forward to working with Scott to make an insane, terrifying and weirdly adorable movie," Seth Grahame-Smith, one of the film's producers, told The Hollywood Reporter.
"The story really lends itself to being a movie, and it taps into a largely unexplored niche of horror that a lot of people will be able to relate to, Cawthon added.
