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‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Movie Haunted By ‘Poltergeist’ Director
With several sequels already released, the robotic horrors of the Five Night at Freddy’s video game is making its way to the big screen..
Poltergeist remake director Gil Kenan has made a deal with Warner Bros to direct Five Nights at Freddy’s, a live action adaptation of the popular video game series created by Scott Cawthon, says Deadline.
It is an online sensation that takes place in a Chuck-E-Cheese-like eatery, called “Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza,” where an animatronic animal that is part of the house band becomes a murderer at night. Players who’ve been locked inside try to survive the rampaging murder machine.
This is going to be the horror movie for the younger generation, and a huge deal. While us older horror fans may not be aware of “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” it’s massive among tweens. My niece is obsessed with the survival horror game and is going to be filling theaters with her friends just to see Chica, Bonnie, Foxy and fReddy in action.
As for us older fans, we remember Chuck-E-Cheese and Showbiz Pizza in their prime, and to have a horror-themed movie that touches on our nostalgia for those places, well, that’s pretty awesome.
Kenan will write the script with Tyler Burton Smith. Roy Lee (The Ring, The Grudge, Godzilla) is producing with Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln Vampire Slayer, Beetlejuice) and David Katzenberg and Adam Stone and Jay Ireland are exec producing with Jon Berg and Nik Mavinkurve overseeing for the studio.
In case you haven’t noticed, the public domain status of beloved icons like Winnie the Pooh, Cinderella and Mickey Mouse has been wreaking havoc on the horror genre in the past couple years, with filmmakers itching to get their hands on the characters and put them into twisted situations. In the wake of two Winnie the Pooh slashers, well, Pooh is about to battle Mickey.
It’s not from the same team behind the Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey films, to be clear, but Deadline reports that Glen Douglas Packard (Pitchfork) will direct the horror movie Mickey vs. Winnie for Untouchables Entertainment and the website iHorror.
Deadline details, “The film follows two convicts in the 1920s who escape into a cursed forest only to be dragged and consumed into the depths of the dark forest’s muddy heart.
“A century later, a group of thrill-seeking friends unknowingly venture into the same woods. Their Airbnb getaway takes a horrifying turn when the convicts mutate into twisted versions of childhood icons Mickey Mouse & Winnie-The-Pooh, and emerge to terrorize them. A night of violence and gore erupts, as the group of friends battle against their now monstrous beloved childhood characters and fight to break free from the forest’s grip.
“In a horrific spectacle, Mickey and Winnie clash, painting the woods in a gruesome tableau of blood—a chilling testament to the curse’s insidious power.”
Glen Douglas Packard wrote the screenplay that he’ll be directing.
“Horror fans call for the thrill of witnessing icons like the new Aliens and Avengers sharing the screen. While licensing nightmares make such crossovers rare, Mickey vs. Winnie serves as our tribute to that thrilling fantasy,” Packard said in a statement this week.
Producer Anthony Pernicka from iHorror previews, “We’re thrilled to unveil this unique take to horror fans. The Mickey Mouse featured in our film is unlike any iteration audiences have encountered before. Our portrayal doesn’t involve characters donning basic masks. Instead, we present deeply transformed, live-action horror renditions of these iconic figures, weaving together elements of innocence and malevolence. After experiencing the intense scenes we’ve crafted, you’ll never look at Mickey the same way again.”
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