Five Nights at Freddy’s video game adaptation gets October theatrical and Peacock release

Universal has given three Blumhouse productions – Halloween Kills, Halloween Ends, and Firestarter – “day and date” releases in theatres and on the Peacock streaming service, and now a fourth has been added to the list. Deadline reports that Universal will be giving Blumhouse’s video game adaptation Five Nights at Freddy’s a theatrical release on October 27th, and the movie will be available to watch on Peacock on the same date.

Five Nights at Freddy’s stars Matthew Lillard (Scream), Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Game), Mary Stuart Masterson (Benny & Joon), Elizabeth Lail (You), Piper Rubio (Holly & Ivy), and Kat Conner Sterling (A Week Away). No details have been revealed about the characters any of the cast members will be playing.

We can expect one of the characters to be a “troubled security guard”, because Five Nights at Freddy’s follows a troubled security guard as he begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy’s won’t be so easy to make it through. The Five Nights at Freddy’s video game takes place in Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, a darker version of Chuck-E-Cheese, where an animatronic animal band performs kiddy songs by day, and goes on murderous rampages by night. The goal of the game is survive a night locked inside, knowing that a furry death machine might jump out of the dark at any moment.

This adaptation was originally set up at Warner Bros., where Gil Kenan (Monster House) was going to direct the film from a screenplay he was writing with Tyler Burton Smith (the Child’s Play remake). Then the project moved over to Blumhouse, where Chris Columbus (Home Alone) was attached to direct it for several years. But now it has gone into production with Emma Tammi – director of The Wind, Into the Dark: Delivered, and Into the Dark: Blood Moon – at the helm, working from a screenplay she wrote with Seth Cuddeback (Mateo) and video game creator Scott Cawthon.

Five Nights at Freddy’s is being produced by Blumhouse, in association with Striker Entertainment. Cawthon is a producer alongside Blumhouse founder Jason Blum. Russell Binder is executive producing. Jim Henson’s Creature Shop is handling the special effects that will bring the homicidal animatronic animals to life on the screen.

Will you be watching Five Nights at Freddy’s this October? If so, will you heading out to see it in a theatre or watching it at home on Peacock? Let us know by leaving a comment below.