Five Nights at Freddy’s director Emma Tammi recently revealed how Steven Spielberg’s filmography and the 2019 DC film Joker influenced the upcoming horror movie.
“We were constantly referencing Steven Spielberg – you know, that childhood wonderment quality,” Tammi told Total Film. “Alongside kind of a darker world that felt akin to Joker.” She also revealed that some of the scenes “that have to do with our main character’s backstory and memory were also influenced by a [Terrence] Malick-esque camera style, to give them a more dreamlike quality… those scenes that were taking place in forest campground settings. There were a lot of different types of references we were pulling to really craft something that felt unique.”
Five Nights at Freddy’s is based on the eponymous point-and-click survival horror video game, developed and published by Scott Cawthon for PC in 2014. In the upcoming horror movie — which has been in some form of development since 2015 — Mike Schmidt (Josh Hutcherson), begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, a Chuck E. Cheese-type establishment that shut down after multiple children went missing in the 1980s, as its night-shift security guard. However, he soon learns that the children’s ghosts now inhabit the bodies of the four animatronic mascots, and they want Mike’s sister Abby (Piper Rubio) to join them. Five Nights at Freddy’s hails from Blumhouse, the acclaimed production company behind M3GAN, The Black Phone and The Invisible Man.
How Long Is Five Nights at Freddy’s?
While rumors were circulating online about Five Nights at Freddy’s being three hours long, the official runtime for the horror movie is 110 minutes, or an hour and 50 minutes. The Motion Picture Association has also handed down its official age rating for Five Nights at Freddy’s, giving the hotly-anticipated adaptation a PG-13 rating. According to the MPA, the upcoming movie contains “strong violent content, bloody images and language.”
Who Stars in Five Nights at Freddy’s?
Hutcherson, who is best known for playing Peeta Mellark in the Hunger Games film quadrilogy, leads the cast as Mike Schmidt with Rubio playing his character’s younger sister, Abby. Elizabeth Lail plays Vanessa, a cop and potential love interest for Hutcherson’s Mike. She is known for her starring roles in the Netflix thriller series You and the NBC drama series Ordinary Joe. Kat Conner Sterling, Mary Stuart Masterson and Matthew Lillard round out the ensemble cast with the latter playing William Afton, the founder of Afton Robotics and the main antagonist of the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise.
Five Nights at Freddy’s debuts in theaters and on Peacock on Oct. 27.
Source: Total Film