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‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 3’ Update – Gary Dauberman Writing the Script
The Five Nights at Freddy’s film franchise will continue with the upcoming Five Nights at Freddy’s 3, and a brand new writer has boarded the franchise for the next installment.
The Hollywood Reporter confirms the news that Gary Dauberman (IT, The Nun, Salem’s Lot, Until Dawn) will write the screenplay for Five Nights at Freddy’s 3.
The outlet also notes that Emma Tammi, who directed the first two Five Nights at Freddy’s movies, is expected to return to the director’s chair for the upcoming third installment.
Franchise creator Scott Cawthon will remain on board as a producer.
“It is unclear whether stars Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio and Elizabeth Lail, among others, will be returning but many are expected to,” The Hollywood Reporter notes in their report.
Last year’s smash hit sequel Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 scared up $238 million at the worldwide box office, so it was all but guaranteed that the franchise would continue.
Rumors had been swirling that David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) had been hired to write the next Five Nights at Freddy’s movie, with those rumors based on recent comments made by franchise star Skeet Ulrich. The actor misspoke at a recent event and mentioned that the writer of It Follows was writing FNAF 3, but Ulrich meant to say the writer of IT (Gary Dauberman).
Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 is coming soon from Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Universal.
The trailer for Ti West’s upcoming adaptation of A Christmas Carol raised a lot of eyebrows when it dropped earlier this week. While plenty of folks initially dismissed Ebenezer as a derivative project meant to cash in on the recent wave of unnecessary prequels that expand the backstory of beloved characters (such as 2023’s Wonka), Charles Dickens’ original novel already made a point of exploring Ebenezer Scrooge’s origins in detail – meaning that this new film is likely just a particularly faithful adaptation of the source material under a different name.
Couple that with the fact that the movie is being helmed by a genuine horror auteur and I think it’s safe to say that the latest iteration of the first modern ghost story is in good hands.
That being said, one detail that immediately jumped out at me during the brief teaser (other than a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nod to Johnny Depp’s iconic bedroom death scene from the original A Nightmare on Elm Street) is the fact that many of Ebenezer’s ghosts appear to have been directly lifted from the iconic John Leech illustrations that accompanied the first edition of Dickens’ novel.
Here are a couple of stills from the trailer compared to the original artwork:
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
The Phantoms in ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Ebenezer’
Marley’s Ghost in ‘Ebenezer’ and ‘A Christmas Carol’
Mainly working with old-school wood and steel engravings that would later be transferred to print, Leech was instrumental in crafting the iconic look of history’s most influential phantoms – especially since Dickens is said to have been deeply involved with the creation of these so-called “comic illustrations.”
And since the novel is commonly said to have popularized spiritualism in Victorian England, much of the ghostly iconography that we still see in genre media to this very day (including some of Ti West’s previous films) can be traced back to the author’s partnership with Leech.
Ebenezer won’t be the first A Christmas Carol adaptation to borrow heavily from these designs, but I can appreciate how Ti West is incorporating an important part of horror history into his latest film.
Ebenezer will be available in theaters starting November 13.
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