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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.
The filmmakers behind Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey are expanding their public domain horror universe with a handful of upcoming “Poohniverse” movies, including Bambi: The Reckoning, Pinocchio: Unstrung, and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare.
Variety has scored the first image from Neverland Nightmare, seen above.
The website details, “Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare follows Wendy Darling as she strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from ‘the clutches of the evil Peter Pan.’ Along the way she meets Tinkerbell, who in this twisted version of the story will be seen taking heroine, convinced that it’s pixie dust.”
Scott Jeffrey will direct Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, expected Halloween 2024.
Jeffrey tells us, “I am taking inspiration from French cinema while in prep for this movie. The film will be incredibly tense. I would say it’s a mesh between Switchblade Romance and The Black Phone with our own spin on it. It is a nasty, violent and incredibly dark movie.”
Megan Placito has joined the cast as Wendy Darling, Kit Green is Tinkerbell, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney (The Pope’s Exorcist) is Michael Darling and Charity Kase (RuPaul Drag Race) is James. Martin Portlock will be playing the twisted version of Peter Pan.
Created by J.M. Barrie way back in 1902, the character of Peter Pan – like Winnie the Pooh – is in the public domain, even if the iconic Disney iteration of the character is very much not.
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