Just a few moments ago, it was confirmed, even by Scott Cawthon himself, that the Five Nights at Freddy's series is getting a movie. Like, omg. This is has got to be the biggest thing since FNAF 2. I am so crazy hyped right now. Don't believe me? Have a look for yourself. http://www.polygon.com/2015/4/7/8367607/five-nights-at-freddys-movie-warner-bros

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This movie better have doors.

Doors dammit

I love FNAF as much as the next guy, but this is too much. The game is great, but I don't really see how you could make a movie out of it. Unless you screwed up the original concept a great deal, It would probably be really boring. I thought three games was enough. We really do not need a movie.

Gingercream1 : Well, once you think about it. It could actually be an AMAZING movie. Think about it this way. The main character is the purple guy. Eh? EH?

OH MY GOD

OH 

MY 

GOD

THIS REPLY CAN'T REALLY DESCRIBE WHAT I FEEL LIKE IN REAL LIFE BUT I'M WAY LOUDER THAN USUAL AND MY HEART IS BEATING FASTER AND I JUST CALLED MY SISTER OH MY GOD THEY ARE MAKING A FNAF MOVIE

AND IT'S TOO LATE TO BE AN APRIL FOOLS PRANK, SO...

OH MY GOD

They better not screw it up

LunarDarkness2 : Well, a Movie? So my hypothesis on this: (http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2wrdok3&s=8#.VSUd6Yo8Kc0) was actually wrong and meant for something larger. At this point, I won't be suprised if they start selling Physical Copies, a Console Port, and at this rate, we will have 10 games before 2017, the original time everybody thought FNAF 3 took place. I would also like to point out that FNAF 3 is actually Five Nights at Springtrap's with Hallucinations

WAIT, A MOVIE!?

Well, I'm sorta worried about the movie, since it's moving from a game to a movie. That doesn't really spell out great news (exceptions to Pokemon :3). Then again... if the movies as great as the games, it would be amazing. I am waiting for the movie, and if it's amazing, I'll watch it.

LunarDarkness2 : If it came out of Scott's mouth then it is true and if it does get made then I will watch it. Also it had better not be directed by Michael Bay and Scott better have a lot of say in this. I'm guessing this movie is going to have Mike in it and make each night at least 30 minutes at least but that's just a guess. Either way I'm very excited and so will be my sister when she hears about it and to be honest I never expected it to have a movie.

I'm just going to assume that everyone who has and will say "Five Night's At Freddy's couldn't make a movie" are basing this solely on the gameplay mechanics and are completely ignoring the fact that FNaF actually has a really good albeit really obscure story line that's told through subtext and easy-to-miss background information.

Of course, even I'm on the fence about it still since most video-game-turned-movies don't end well (Resident Evil being my prime example), but I'm going to hold out until I see a final product. Just because something seems like it will be bad, doesn't always mean it will be. I remember everyone saying you couldn't make a good Lego movie, and look at how that turned out.

An issue I'm seeing here (or maybe not an issue, depending on how you look at it) is that love or hate the franchise, you've got to admit that FNaF is really somewhat of a fad. It came out of nowhere, became wildly popular PRACTICALLY overnight and spawned three games over the course of like half a year. A movie, especially with Warner Bros. backing the project, isn't going to simply take a few months. My theory is that the love and hype over FNaF is going to die down before the movie get's to see the light of day.

But, there is one rather simple solution: Make more games.

Not gonna lie, first thing I did was check the date of the article, to make sure there was no April Fool's thing going on. 

And since it wasn't written on April 1, I'm not entirely sure what to think, to be honest. Yes, the obscure story line would make for a good... sort of horror movie? I only say 'sort of' because the plot is obscure. They'd need to make it much more obvious for a movie to sell, as it's not interactive like a game, thus most people don't devote quite as much energy to figuring things out.  If they manage to do that and still retain the sense of mystery, it'll be a good movie. If for no other reason than animatronics are scary as all get-out ALL ON THEIR OWN, and even more so for people who have a fear of mannequins anyway. *raises hand high*

The article also says that Warner is making a Minecraft movie. If they can pull THAT off (and so help me it better have Herobrine in it), they can definitely pull of Five Nights at Freddy's. I have to wonder how a movie like this will impact Chuck E. Cheese's sales and such, though, because of the similarities. Also because I know there will be dumb parents who let their young children watch a Five Nights movie and then try to take them to Chuck E. Cheese. I foresee some issues there. 

18mlivingston : No, if they made it that way, it would be a waste of money. It's most likely going to be the origins, and reveal who phone guy was and fancy crap.

bostonblokhed1 : Well, why don't you want to origin of the story? Don't you want some background info, so that the characters didn't just come from nowhere?

Honestly, do you really expect much from it? There are so many ways that this movie can fail because there really isn't much to show unless they do something that the game never did in order to show the story. Though if the movie can get past all of the parts that can easily destroy it, this could possibly become one of the best horror movies in a while, but its a long shot.