A film adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy ’s has been on the schedule for afew years now , date back to the mid-2010s . With a handful of postponement and changes in creative team , plus the late release of two moviesfairlysimilarto ScottGames ’ revulsion game enfranchisement , you could pretty think that the Five Nights moving picture would be something that just would n’t get made . But Blumhouse is dictated to get this matter out the doorway , and the film ’s now cast its first pair of actors for the moving-picture show .
PerDeadline , Matthew Lillard and Josh Hutcherson are both joining the Five Nights film in currently unrevealed role . Of the two , Lillard has had the larger horror front : in addition to playing Shaggy in the pair of unrecorded - military action Scooby - Doo films , he was in 13 Ghosts , Bloodsucking Bastards , and multiple riot movie . He even had a horror movie this year as Shaggy in Trick or Treat Scooby - Doo ! ( From the 2010s and onwards , he ’s voiced the character in various Scooby films and shows , in addition to the MultiVersus game from earlier this class . ) Meanwhile , Hutcherson is perhaps best have it away as Peeta from the Hunger Games films , plus the three - season Hulu serial publication Future Man and Journey 2 : The Mysterious Island .
Five Nights at Freddy ’s , for those not aware , are a series of games about a fictitious tyke ’ restaurant chain and the poor souls ( unremarkably a certificate guard , sometimes a child or retail worker ) who have to make through the dark defending themselves against an expanding roll of very uncongenial animatronic animal . The serial has been extremely popular online since 2014 ( its most recent game was last twelvemonth ’s Security Breach ) , and lucubrate into a turgid media world with graphic novels and books .
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Production on the Five Nights at Freddy ’s movie will begin in February .
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