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‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Being Played by ‘Gremlins’ and ‘Goonies’ Writer Chris Columbus!
Chris Columbus has signed on to write, direct and produce Blumhouse’s long-gestured screen adaptation of Scott Cawthon’s popular video game Five Nights at Freddy’s, which centers around a security guard battling animatronic robots that come to life in a Chuck E. Cheese-like venue, reports Deadline.
Blumhouse landed Five Nights at Freddy’s last March when the movie rights to the video game were put in turnaround by New Line.
Cawthon will produce alongside Columbus and Blumhouse’s Jason Blum. Cawthon launched the original game in 2014 and it became an immediate online sensation, ultimately generating billions of views on YouTube. Five Nights at Freddy‘s spans six different games. Each of the games that were released as mobile apps ranked at the top of Android and iOS app stores upon release. To date, the franchise includes a series of best-selling novels and top-performing retail merchandise lines.
Columbus has a long streak with haunted classics going back to his screenwriting days on Gremlins, The Goonies and Young Sherlock Holmes. As the director of such landmark tentpoles as Home Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire, and the first two Harry Potter titles, Columbus’ credits count over $4.1 billion at the global box office. His producing credits include Night at the Museum and The Help, the latter of which he was nominated for a best picture Oscar.
Gil Kenan, who had directed MGM’s recent iteration of Poltergeist, was the last filmmaker to take a crack at Five Nights at Freddy‘s as director and co-scribe when the brand was set up at Warner Bros./New Line.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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