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‘Poppy Playtime’ Horror Movie Adaptation Coming Soon from Legendary
The popular video game Poppy Playtime is following in the footsteps of Five Nights at Freddy’s, THR reports, with Legendary Entertainment developing a movie adaptation.
“Beating out several competitive offers, Legendary has closed an aggressive deal with Mob Entertainment to develop and produce a live-action feature adaptation of Poppy Playtime, a horror video game featuring the toy-turned-monster,” the website reports.
The Hollywood Reporter reminds, “Featuring shades of Willy Wonka, Toy Story and Gremlins, the first person video game sees the player acting as a former employee of a faded toy brand who, thanks to a cryptic letter, is drawn back to an abandoned facility only to quickly discover it has become home to a host of toys, including Huggy Wuggy, Mommy Long Legs, and CatNap, that have taken on a life of their own. Players have to decipher clues, solve puzzles and use gadgets to unravel the mystery and get out alive.”
Legendary will develop and produce the upcoming Poppy Playtime horror movie along with Mob Entertainment and Angry Films’ Don Murphy and Susan Montford.
The original survival horror video game was released in 2021, and much like Five Nights at Freddy’s, it’s been an incredibly popular merchandising powerhouse in the last few years.
Last year’s Five Nights at Freddy’s movie was a massive box office hit for Universal and Blumhouse, scaring up $291 million at the box office. Your move, Poppy Playtime.
Poppy Playtime boasts over 40 million players on PC, mobile, PlayStation®, Nintendo Switch® and Roblox®. With the most recent release of the horror anthology’s third chapter, Poppy Playtime provides another piece to the puzzle, weaving together the franchise’s storyline with deeper lore, longer gameplay, and unexpected twists that keep fans speculating.
Alongside the game’s epic journey evolution and expansion to console platforms, its haunting characters, particularly the mischievous ‘Huggy Wuggy’ and ‘Smiling Critters,’ have proven to be huge merchandising draws, delighting fans with collectible figures, costumes, and plush toys, bringing the chilling world of Poppy Playtime to life beyond the screen.
NEON has been absolutely slaying the marketing game for their horror output this year, and they’re kicking the Longlegs campaign into high gear with one more month until release.
A cryptic ad in The Seattle Times today (seen below) has led clever horror fans to discover TheBirthdayMurders.net, the brand new official viral marketing website for Longlegs.
The in-universe website details the victims of the serial killer known as Longlegs (Nicolas Cage), described as a “Satan-worshipping psycho” who has terrorized families throughout the Pacific Northwest for nearly three decades.
The website details, “A bloody trail of bodies here in the great state of Oregon attests to the depraved savagery of this one-of-a-kind serial killer. With over three dozen victims that we know of, LONGLEGS is one of the most prolific mass murderers ever to have graced the region, and his gruesome endeavors are the stuff of nightmares. At first, all of the killings appeared to be straightforward murder-suicides: the handiwork of average men who suddenly snapped and slaughtered their wives and children. But a series of eerie coded messages left at the crime scenes indicate that someone – or something – is influencing these horrific crimes. The cryptic letters are signed by someone calling himself LONGLEGS.”
“With thirty-eight kills to his name, LONGLEGS has torn apart the lives of eleven different families throughout the Beaver State. His victims were good people: honest fathers, decent mothers, innocent little children.”
The website is loaded with secrets, clues, and gruesome (faux) crime scene photos, and you might even find a mention of yours truly nestled in there. Poke around. Stay a while.
Longlegs arrives in theaters July 12.
The upcoming serial killer horror movie marks the return of director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel & Hansel). Nicolas Cage stars alongside Maika Monroe, with Monroe playing an FBI agent and Cage playing a serial killer.
In the film, “FBI Agent Lee Harker (Monroe) is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer (Cage). As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.
The film is rated “R” for “Bloody violence, disturbing images and some language.”
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