FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S Movie To Be Directed By Chris Columbus

<p>Fans of the popular horror game and Chuck E Cheese-like franchise&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;five-nights-at-freddys-3-a-bit-late-to-the-restaurant&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer"><em>Five Nights at Freddy&&num;8217&semi;s<&sol;em><&sol;a> &lpar;2014&rpar; have been waiting in anticipation for an update on the movie adaptation and were mercifully presented with a tweet from Blumhouse Productions earlier this month&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Mr&period; Columbus&comma; are you ready for Freddy&quest; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;hashtag&sol;FiveNightsatFreddys&quest;src&equals;hash&amp&semi;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&num;FiveNightsatFreddys<&sol;a> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;4F7QEnw16x">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;4F7QEnw16x<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Blumhouse &lpar;&commat;blumhouse&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;blumhouse&sol;status&sol;963095697791873025&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">February 12&comma; 2018<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As reported first by <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;deadline&period;com&sol;2018&sol;02&sol;five-nights-at-freddys-chris-columbus-harry-potter-blumhouse-1202286349&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Deadline<&sol;a>&comma; Christopher Columbus has now signed on to write&comma; direct&comma; and produce Blumhouse&&num;8217&semi;s feature adaptation of the game&period; Columbus is known for his work directing <em>Home Alone<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Home Alone 2<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Mrs&period; Doubtfire<&sol;em>&comma; and the first two <em>Harry Potter<&sol;em> films&period; Fans will be relieved to hear that he is not a stranger to the suspense&sol;thriller genre as he also wrote the screenplay for <em>Gremlins&comma;<&sol;em> <em>The Goonies<&sol;em>&comma; and <em>Young Sherlock Holmes<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Blumhouse secured the rights to the film over a year ago&comma; however&comma; news on the production&comma; and word from the game&&num;8217&semi;s creator&comma; Scott Cawthon&comma; has been scarce&period; A year ago via a <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;steamcommunity&period;com&sol;games&sol;506610&sol;announcements&sol;detail&sol;558845768046191147" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">post on Steam<&sol;a>&comma; Cawthon revealed that the film was met with several delays&comma; <em>&&num;8220&semi;some involving problems within the movie industry as a whole&&num;8230&semi;&lbrack;and&rsqb; as a result&comma; right now&comma; the movie is back at square one&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em>&period; Luckily&comma; he is staying positive and remarked that starting from scratch is not a bad idea at all&period; He said&comma; <em>&&num;8220&semi;it&&num;8217&semi;s bad because the movie is in it&&num;8217&semi;s early stages again&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s good because I want to make sure that the right movie gets made&comma; and things are on the right track now for that to happen&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em> He also revealed that he has a much more hands-on role in the production of the film&comma; and with six video games&comma; a series of novels&comma; an array of unique merchandise there is bound to be plenty of content to work with&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To those unfamiliar with the cult-favorite game which has garnered over millions of youtube views and let&&num;8217&semi;s plays&colon; the story is built around a newly-hired security guard named Mike Schmidt&period; While learning the new security system on his first night&comma; he must fight to stay alive within Freddy Fazbear&&num;8217&semi;s Pizzeria while the defunct animatronics continuously makes their assault on his security booth&period; Sadly&comma; it does not look like a trailer will be released anytime soon&comma; with the film&&num;8217&semi;s release date not even listed on the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;imdb&period;com&sol;title&sol;tt4589218&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">IMDB page<&sol;a>&period; Still&comma; fans are eager to follow the production as it gets off the ground and can play all six games available for <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;app&sol;319510&sol;Five&lowbar;Nights&lowbar;at&lowbar;Freddys&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">download on Steam<&sol;a>&period; &lpar;A bundle of all six games is available for just &dollar;29&period;55&excl;&rpar; Think you can survive to Night 5&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Original source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;deadline&period;com&sol;2018&sol;02&sol;five-nights-at-freddys-chris-columbus-harry-potter-blumhouse-1202286349&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Deadline<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;