A ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Sequel Is In the Works

How do you comply with Five Nights at Freddy’s? Well, you make a sixth evening, duh.

Whether or not that it what the film is known as, a second film is seemingly in the works, in keeping with the first movie’s star Josh Hutcherson. He instructed Variety that the inventive crew behind the franchise is “in the process right now of nailing down the story, and they want to get going as soon as possible … Obviously, the fans are amazing and die hard. For me to be a part of it was was so cool and phenomenal.”

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Five Nights at Freddy’s was one in every of the largest shock field workplace hits of 2023 — particularly as a result of Universal premiered the movie concurrently in theaters and on its Peacock streaming service. Typically that severely impacts a film’s box-office potential; in spite of everything, why pay $20 when you may pay $10 for a month of a whole streaming library and the likelihood to observe a film with out leaving your home and even placing on pants?

But Five Nights at Freddy’s youthful audience relished the likelihood to see the movie on an enormous display in a theater surrounded by different Freddy’s followers. The film grossed over $130 million in the U.S. alone, plus one other $150 abroad for a complete of just about $290 million worldwide towards a reported funds of simply $20 million. At that time, a sequel was mainly inevitable. The film was primarily based on the extraordinarily in style online game sequence created by Scott Cawthon a few spooky deserted restaurant haunted by sentient animatronic robots.

“We hoped it would connect with audiences, but I don’t think that anybody, even on our side of things, expected it to really connect the way that it did. I’m dying to get back on set,” Hutcherson added.

Five Nights at Freddy’s is at present streaming on Peacock.