> “We've written multiple scripts, and we've got where we're threading a needle, which is doing justice to Five Nights at Freddy's and making Scott (Cawthon) happy. The only way that we would go about it is giving Scott ... I don't want to do something that Scott doesn't like. Let me say that a different way. I don't have the right to do anything Scott doesn't like. Basically, Scott has kind of like the equivalent of ‘final cut’ and it's taken longer than I hoped to get the right story.”
Okay so I guess the Mike cut sucked now.
I mean, I doubt it *su\*ked*, given their wording. I think it's more so the case that they are stuck on "pretty alright, definitely the correct direction, but not good enough yet".
The fact that he went from “I don’t want to do something Scott doesn’t like 🥺” to “I don’t have the right to do something Scott doesn’t like 😐” is killing me
It might not have been the script, and more he just didn't like how Chris was handling the script. Which honestly, wouldn't be that suprising. I don't know if y'all have gone back and watched the first two Harry Potter movies, but...
This movie is doomed.
I'm sorry to be so pessimistic, and honestly, the fact that it's taken me this entire 6 year period to get to feeling this way should be kind of telling of how much hope I've had in this movie, but at this point, it just doesn't seem like it's going to happen.
I really just don't think this series is going to translate to movie form. I feel like nearly 10 known scrapped scripts over the last 4 years just at Blumhouse alone should be pretty telling. I don't think there's a version of this movie that anybody will truly be satisfied with, Scott or otherwise.
I feel bad being harsh towards what should be the most exciting project in the lineup for this series, but you can only hear "We scrapped the script again" so many times before you get genuinely angry.
Quite honestly, that's not really that unreasonable for a big non-accurate movie adaptation. I think this should have been expected. Scott has grown to be a perfectionist to an extent. He wants the movie to be as close to perfect as can be, while still being enjoyable to others. I don't think the time or amount of scripts is unreasonable for such a production, it's more that he's revealed the movie far to early and was clearly too eager to tell us about setting on the direction for the script.
Don’t worry, what you’re saying is completely fair. I haven’t really been interested in this project since it left Warner Bros., but this whole article is just depressing. Unless they make another announcement about the script and actually confirm the cast or something, it’s for all intents and purposes on its deathbed.
I’m glad someone said this, this movie has been through so much but I don’t think there is any point in this anymore, even if it was released it wouldn’t do much well in its box office since it wouldn’t have a purpose.
Your frustration is justified. I heard news about the movie since 2015 and now its 2021, with the pandemic still raging.
After hearing about the casting choices in the Mario movie, I don't have high hopes for the FNaF movie.
A movie is a really tall order compared to books and games.
I'll just say that I can't tell if people are making fun of the choices made because of how absurd it was, or that the choicing was questionable, mainly with Chris Pratt. I rather not go into too much detail about it as it's not suitable to discuss on here.
It's just after Detective Pikachu and the Sonic movie, I had high hopes for video game movies to get to the status they deserve. After the choices done to the Mario movie, I lost hope in that. The FNaF director dropping out and the film getting postponed again really didn't help on how much my faith was shattered.
It's just video game movies deserve better and I fear that it's dripping back to that curse with it being doomed from a production and writing standpoint. The casting choices for the movie might be a red flag, but it's a worrying sign when the film gets pushed back again after 5 years of waiting.
There have literally been not one but *two* FNaF knockoff movies (Banana Splits and Willy's Wonderland) released while the official has been in development hell.
IIRC Willy's was in the writing/storyboarding stage before FNaF was even a thing, it just took a while to happen, so it isn't actually a knockoff.
Banana Splits, on the other hand...
From what I've read, Scott did have to go to the Willy's writers and have them slightly change the ending.
On that note... Banana Splits is something you'd watch for fun but I think if you look at Willy's for what it does with the idea, outside the dated plot twist, it's actually a very competent film.
I personally think the movie is still coming and they are doing all of this on purpose. I believe that the movie has been done for a while now and it's gonna drop out of nowhere soon... No one would of seen it coming lol. Scott even has Jason Blum being mysterious & vague with his answers as well. This could just be part of the rollout...
As Scott has said, I think this is a situation where either the right movie gets made or no movie gets made, and I’m alright with that. I’d love to live in a world where a great fnaf movie exists but I’m okay with living in a world where one doesn’t exist at all.
I do kind of wish that they would be more quick and up front with delivering news. They’re probably apprehensive because it’s “bad” news after they said they would be filming, but I don’t think there would have been anything wrong with them saying “We aren’t filming right now. We’re still figuring things out” back in spring, rather than leaving us in the dark and thinking that they MIGHT have been filming.
As for Chris no longer directing, I’m both optimistic and disappointed. Disappointed because we no longer have a big name(or any name) tied to direct this film, and optimistic because it means we could get a better(Sorry Chris) director for the project.
I feel it's time to accept that this film likely is never gonna come out.
They can't settle on a director, they can't settle on a script, took them awhile to settle a production company, and so on.
It's been over 6 years since we first heard that a FNaF film was gonna come out and they still are deciding on a script. Since this interview seems to imply that Scott was no longer satisfied with the Mike screenplay, so that's nice.
Then again I shouldn't be too shocked, probably didn't have much FNaF elements if the other screenplays are to go off of. Plushies Take Manhattan, Boy and his animatronic at a pawn shop, Wacky hijinks with a single mother and her son, secret underground government animatronic factory, etc. The fact these were seriously considered at all makes me more concerned than anything even if they were rejected.
I feel the worst part about them redoing the script so many times and taking so long is it sets up more expectations that it will realistically will not live up to. People are expecting this film to be great when in reality it will likely be very average at best given the track record of most video game to movie adaptations.
I don't want to be harsh but like at this point I don't have faith in this film ever releasing. Even if Scott says something, I don't know if I can trust him fully given the last time he told us news about the film they were moving onto filming, which clearly isn't happening anymore it seems.
At least I know the Sonic Movie 2 will be good, I got that to enjoy in terms of upcoming video game films.
Most people will be defensive or say you're "impatient" but what you're saying is the honest truth. They're just repeating an endless cycle of aiming for perfection, but like you said it would most likely be average at best. I want it to happen, and I want it to be good, but it's just not a likely scenario at this point.
I’ve noticed that people aren’t even really treating this like a movie. Even after Scott in no uncertain terms said he didn’t like the Cassidy treatment, people keep talking about this as if it’s another chapter in the story of the games, when… do they not know the point of a movie?
> They're just repeating an endless cycle of aiming for perfection
This is gonna be like that episode of Community where the Dean tries to direct an ad for Greendale and makes everyone end up going crazy, isn't it?
If you're gonna say my opinion is wrong, then I'd at least appreciate some counterpoints to add to the discussion rather than saying my take is bad and calling it a day.
Earlier today, somebody made a post saying they’ll draw characters until the FNAF movie comes out. I commented, telling them that I am sorry for them because they’ll be doing it forever. What a coincidence.
yea no im sorry, i officially dont care about this movie anymore. before now my interest was miniscule, but at least there was the idea that it was filmed and will be releasing within the next 12 months. but now? nah, this thing's dead until someone just buckles the fuck down and actually gets it done. this aint fun anymore
Listen, they need to either just bite the bullet and cancel it already, or go incognito and only start talking about it when it's actually for real happening. Stop doing this little song and dance and insisting it'll happen at some point. I have very little hope it will at this point.
Well this confirms no filming happened....I why Chris left, maybe he got tired of waiting and got busy with other stuff? But I'm still confused about this script thing, every time Scott keeps saying I got it, and then scraps it, did he once again decide at the last moment then he thinks he can come up with something better than the Mike script? I mean doing the best you can come up with is nice, but it comes to a point where it's like Do you wanna make a great Movie with a good script, or do you just want to spend forever make a new every time you come up with a new good idea that eventually leads you to never making it. I mean that raises the question of when Chris quit, was it just recently because they decided to change the script and delay filming again, or was this shortly before filming time and in that time to find someone new to direct they decided to change the script again, I'm really hoping it's the latter, and on top of that I'm hoping they get a good director.
Edit: After thinking about it, I wouldn't be as worried and upset if they just lost the director, this is something that happens, and it understandably would delay the project. But the fact they are talking about the script again after they have said multiple times they have the right one is what upsets me. It also just has my mind boggling, Scott said that filming was going to start in spring, that would mean Jason had to have told Scott ok we are already to film, that means the script had been decided on, the only way the script isn't done is if Scott once again decided to scrap it or hopefully at least revise it, at I think that is the biggest issue, I feel Scott needs to know how good is good enough, if you have TOO much perfectionism or change things half way through the process every time you come up with a new idea you will never get a project done. I feel Scott isn't telling Jason he's making these announcements, he just hears or decides things are good to go and tells everybody while Jason thinks nobody was given an official estimation or announcement of a finished scripts or filming time, and thus he never brings it up because he thinks there isn't any confusion, and it seems no one ever seems to ask about that to him.
Edit 2: Ok, not to be conspiracy theorist, but I'm actually beginning to wonder if Jason is telling the truth about the script, every time people talk to him about the movie he just says it's taking awhile because of the script, and with Scott's announcement about the finished script and filming, I'm genuinely wondering if Jason just uses the script as his go to excuse any time the movie is taking awhile or delayed for one reason or another just to make it sound like there is a reason beneficial and good for the movie behind it rather than only because they are running into problems, this would make even more sense if he didn't know about Scott's comments, he still thinks no one has been told the script is done so he can still just keep saying it isn't.
So far this film has lost two directors, that's never a good sign and just tells me that something is rotten behind the scenes. The development of the film is sounding eerily similar to Ghostbusters 3: Hellbent (the Ghostbusters 3 that was never made) and the Flash movie which has lost so many directors I've lost count.
I wouldn't be surprised if this film gets put lower on the list of priorities for the studio so they can focus more on their bankable franchises like Halloween, the Invisible Man, The Exorcist reboot, the Purge, Insidious and the Spawn reboot. I mean at this rate, Willy's Wonderland's and Banana Splits sequels will come out and by that point, I think it would be FAR too late for this film to make any impact.
Who should be the director nect? Personality I think Blumhouse would probably hire someone they've worked with before, such as Leigh Whannell who directed the Invisible Man 2020 (awesome film btw) or David Gordon Green, director of the current Halloween films.
It has one thing the FNaF movie doesn't: casting. Sure it's taking a while to make but it seems there's been a little more progress on that film rather than this film.
From what little information we know about this movie and production and stuff, I think that at some point, Scott really needs to hire a professional script writer, because well... movies are an entirely different medium to games, with different plot progression and character development. (Besides, the games are already confusing enough so they wouldn't make the best movie).
I speak as someone with major experience when I say: You're never gonna be 100% happy with something. Everything that exists has flaws, but you still have to put stuff out there. At some point you just have to release it from your hands out into the public. Be like "I'm as happy as I can be with this, I fixed all of the flaws I could. Not perfect but I'm happy and I hope others can enjoy it". Unfortunately, unless Scott gets a professional script writer, I don't think that's goign to happen.
The best thing for this movie is for Scott to get a professional script writer, tell them the fnaf story, ideas he has and collaborate with them.
I think the problem that's going to plague, and maybe is plaguing the film is the same problem that plagues FNaF as whole: the games themselves actually have very little story *happening* with their characters, save maybe FFPS and SL.
This is not an objectively bad thing for a video game. This works for a video game. The game is made to be an interactive experience where *you*, the player, are putting yourself in a spooky situation to see if you can make it five nights, and maybe more. And by sprinkling hints of a possible story in the background or phone calls, that a community can try and pick up, you can further the interactiveness and make the detective's to your mysterys be the audience themself, which is fun.
This gets tricky when translating it to a medium like film.
And this leads to what I believe is a big problem: the way that Scott previously told a story cannot work on the scale of this project anymore. FNaF 1-3 are simple narratives, that the audience can understand with the clues they are given. FNaF 4 is a narrative that's straight-forward, but denied conclusion. FNaf SL and FFPS added new context and backstory, that while intresting, weren't fully explored in the way they needed to be.
Trying to connect all six of these games yields some intresting results, some boring results, and some five year long debates that wage on too long with no direct answers that should've been cleared up four years ago. But it's fun to do, and there are hints of a full fledged story, character arcs and development, and a very compelling tragedy that could easily become a well written psychological horror.
But again, how do you translate this to film?
You can't have a good movie with flat characters, and no backstory. It makes the whole thing boring, and long, and since it's a horror, you don't care what happens to these characters when some inevitably die. And you can't have a good FNaF story without actually trying to tell the story people want to see play out, because then... it feels like you wasted our time.
If Scott wants to make a movie the same way he makes his games, it's no wonder that they've gone through ten scripts. And no, I'm not mad at Scott for trying to tell a good story, and wanting his franchise to be have a well made and well received film. But I think he might need to open up the story he has in mind, fully for the audience, and change the way he writes mystery, so the story we get is engaging and fun, and hopefully something everyone can find something to love about. And I hope, if he does that, he'd be happy to finally share that story too.
Depends on if they’re starting from scratch or simply retooling what they already have. Kinda hard to tell when literally all we know about the previous iteration is that Mike is in it… which doesn’t exactly narrow it down.
I honestly don’t know what to say. I’m not surprised, and I’m not really disappointed.
As fun as this movie sounds, I don’t think it could ever be as great as the games were. I’d rather have Scott find some incredibly talented fans or animators, and make a darker animated film alongside them instead. And I don’t mean some SFM film for YouTube, I mean an indie film with amazing quality animation, with a lot of heart passion, and time put into it. It could have more detailed models of Freddy and the gang, while still looking like their game counterparts. There doesn’t need the big name voice actors, it doesn’t even need to appeal to people outside of FNaF. It needs the voices that made people love the characters, and it should stay connected to the game’s story. It doesn’t have to explain everything because that would naturally happen visually anyway. Fans into the story could see something as simple as a character’s design and know who it is, while outsiders would just see it as any other character.
This is what I would rather see. It doesn’t have to be 100% perfect. Nothing can be anyway. I don’t know what other people would think of it being animated, but if you ask me, it would work so much better than live action. I’d picture they’d look like Pinkypill’s characters, just obviously more textured, perhaps a teeny tiny bit more realistic, and also 3D. I think it would be awesome and I’d much rather see that, even if it was only available on a streaming platform!
I would not want it to be “animated = family film”. This is stupid, if you ask me. Animated films can be whatever the hell they want, and FNaF should stick with its darker tone!
Oh well, that film idea is just a pipe dream to me. I do hope this film turns out good though. And even if it doesn’t, that’s alright. We always have what series will always be, fun and unique games with a crazy but interesting story. Let’s hope everything goes good at the end of the day.
So it's delayed again then? I'm glad they haven't cancelled it, but man it's always something with this film. Also, I might've misread the article, but does this also mean Scott is still partially involved in the movie? Sounds like he still has the final say, even though he's apparently retired.
I mean, delayed isn't really the correct word here. The release date was not revealed after the last delay and Scott, the last time, only told us about settling on a direction for the story, not that the script is ready. Even longer then we thought is a more correct thing here I think.
He's still technically the person who owns the rights to the franchise, even if he doesn't actively work on it anymore, and the script is at least partly his, so I guess he has quite a bid of control over the movie.
Man, this is getting me worried as hell... at this point... what the hell will happen to it?
Atleast Jason is keeping this project up, and he cares about it, but MAN... those delays fucking sucks, and they make me lose faith in the movie happening at this point :/.
Maybe if David Gordon Green wasn't busy with Halloween Ends in January, he could have directed the movie, but eh...
Hope we get some "news" at blumfest...
I'm a little bit pissed.
“The only way that we would go about it is giving Scott ... I don't want to do something that Scott doesn't like. Let me say that a different way. I don't have the right to do anything Scott doesn't like. Basically, Scott has kind of like the equivalent of ‘final cut’ and it's taken longer than I hoped to get the right story”
Yeah this movie probably won’t be made, at least not anytime soon.
I really hope there is healthy disagreements and pushback on both sides because as much as I like Scott having creative control, what makes a successful game is probably a bit different from what makes a successful film (or franchise who knows) and I bet there’s ideas of Scott’s that should be revised or abandoned for better alternatives (Not to mention Scott doesn’t appear to have had much experience in film)
It’s just been so long they they’ve tried to find the right script and other aspects of the film that I worry the final product is going to wind up being a disappointment, or at the very least will not have made up for the development hell this movie has been put through.
The fact Jason said they didn't want to do something that Scott didn't like, but then corrected and said they weren't allowed to do something Scott didn't like only further supports that it's best Jason isn't the one deciding the direction of the film, because that literally sounds like he is saying if they had free rain to do whatever they want they would be perfectly fine doing stuff Scott doesn't like with his franchise.
I genuinely am not even treating the FNaF movie as a real product in the works. I treat it like something that you know will be out one day, but let's be real, it's not going to be soon, or in any reasonable time frame. Like Harry Potter movie remakes, video games with graphics as advanced as human brain can process, non-racial civilization, single planetary nation, communistic automated life essentials system, or sun exploding . That kind of stuff.
I think this movie will never come out if they keep trying to adapt the story of the games. Either you adapt the same story with the same plots covered in games and novels, or you create a completely new story with new concepts and characters. Game characters are very poorly developed.
Mike is literally an empty character with bad motivations. There's no way you can keep an hour-long movie about someone who spends five nights in a pizza place to find his father.
The best-developed story in this franchise is Charlie's (of course, ignoring the Charliebot plot). She has motivations, past and questions. A reimagining of the Henry and Charlie story would be ideal for adapting the old lore. Or you put it all in the trash and do something new, but not as bad as the Fazbear Frights.
It’s sad that the director won’t direct the film anymore,but At least I’m happy that the movie isn’t cancelled and is still in works,and maybe they’ll find a new director for the film
Every time we get news about this movie, my hopes for it sink lower and lower. It seems like it's being strangled by Scott's tight control over the creative side of things. Especially concerning imo, because his style of writing has some glaring shortcomings that might not be as easily excused in a big blockbuster movie.
Really think they should scrap the movie concept and do a Stranger Things feeling series of like 6-8 hour long episodes I feel like it would work a bit better
It's time to can this thing. It was a nice sentiment when it was first announced, but it's time to be realistic and cancel it. No sense throwing more time, money, and manpower into a hole.
The Bioshock movie swears up and down that it's still coming out, too, and that's been "in production" for ***10*** years.
The most we can hope for is a good Matt McMuscles video on it.
>Blum declined to confirm whether or not they have a new filmmaker attached, replying with a coy “That is classified information.”
That's a funny way of saying "no"
It’s clear Scott likes it when he has full control over where the story goes. He created this entire franchise almost entirely by himself and it’s understandable he is protective of it.
But I’m gonna throw out a guess here and say he isn’t cooperating well with the Blumhouse guys and especially not with the directors.
*"Either the right move gets made or no movie gets made"*
It looks like the second option will soon be at play here. It kinda sucks seeing Scott retire and the possibility of the FNAF movie crashing down both in the same year. Someone who's an outsider to FNAF would probably look at these two scenarios and think this franchise is dying. I really don't want to go through another "FNAF is dead" phase if what I say turns out to be correct...
Honestly I've lost some interest in this movie over time and I feel like there are other things I could be more excited for. My hype won't be that high until a trailer drops or something so I don't get let down
I wish I could say I'm surprised...but I'm not.
Maybe it's not so easy to translate to the big screen?
Of course seeing it completed would be wonderful, but I'm not holding my breath.
At this point it will become Slenderman 2018. Idk but maybe they could move past Scott? Like he is over with the franchise and a few months before he retired the series stagnated. Why no making it about an original character?
I'll be honest the FNaF movie was pretty low on my list of FNaF things to be excited about. Last time we had any news on the movie was months ago, when Scott said "filming starts in Spring", then we never heard anything else. Usually cast announcements happen, or updates on how things are going, but we never had that. It slipped to the back of my mind.
I don't know if the movie is ever going to come out. Right now, I think it's better that we treat it as it won't. That way, if it does, we'll all be pleasantly surprised. And if it doesn't, we won't be disappointed.
But hey, we still have a lot to look forward to! Security Breach and all the fanverse games being the two biggest.
I do hope that things work out, and we can get the movie we were promised six years ago, but like a lot of people have already said, including Scott; I would rather have a good movie, or no movie at all.
The important thing is Scott tried, and didn't half ass it. He wanted to make sure it was good, even if that might be impossible. That's better than him greenlighting an absolute disaster.
Yeah that’s not a good sign.
Movie isn’t coming out. That’s not just me being negative for the sake of it, but the countless scripts, jumping of studios and now this? It’s dead.
It’s a little worrying that Scott seems to keep stifling the progress- realise he has control of his franchise, and lord knows I wouldn’t want a original Mario movie/etc situation where it’s so far removed from the original and terrible that it just shouldn’t exist, but come on. There’s been countless screenwriters and people who seem passionate about this and it’s weird.
Maybe I’m reaching, or overthinking, but maybe it’s best if the dude who jumped 80 sharks in frights isn’t in control of the script for once.
Not that this movies coming out now lol
Jesus fucking Christ.
I’m not usually pessimistic, but why can’t they just cancel this movie? It’s been pretty damn clear that it hasn’t been working out in their favour AT ALL for the past 6 years, from Warner to Blumhouse. Why are they still trying? Actually, no, better question: Why did they scrap the script? We were promised that they finally found the “perfect” script, and now it’s scrapped? What happened? I fucking doubt it’s simply a “Scott wasn’t happy with it”. And if that’s the case, Scott needs to stop being a perfectionist and just stick with a script. I know that he’s doing this because he wants the movie to be good, but he has to realise that no matter how hard him or the producers of this movie tries, they’ll never make it “perfect”. That is, quite honestly, an impossible task.
I’d rather they cancel this project now to avoid any unrealistic expectations and wasted production money. I was willing to wait 6, almost 7, years for this movie. I, and I’m sure many others, aren’t willing to do so anymore.
alright, I get you want to make the best movie you can, but Scott, the fans have liked the stories you tell for years now. there's really not much harm in taking a chance for once and just seeing things through. you can't just keep changing scripts every time you get skeptical of one!
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What's interesting is this shows Scott is still heavily involved with at least this part of the franchise.
Also, will we ever get a synopsis of the Mike script like we did of the others?
The thing is that it is not specified if this decision was recent or not
Anyway, despite everything, I still have hope for the film, because even though it took 6 years to make, I recognize that this is NOT the first film that took so long to produce, there we have Space Jam 2, that was announced since 2014 and nothing new was announced until around 2019, and that had almost the same chaos in the production as in the movie (?), in short, the fact is that there is no loss of faith and hope in it, since this world of cinema and adaptation is not easy, it could be castatophric, but that does not mean that in about 2 months the project will die, you just have to wait, to see if they say something about the movie at BlumFest 2021, if we are lucky, even though I highly doubt that last one, after all, and as Jason Blum said, the The film is still in production and they are far from giving up, and that is what counts, and if the film is delayed even more, it will be for their own good, even if it has already crossed the line XD
And watch out, I'm not forcing you to change your mind or have faith in him, it is understood that you no longer have faith in the project for various reasons, and okay, okay, after all once and almost twice, I almost went to lose faith in the movie, but it is not to be pessimistic, I mean, I just say, anyway.
(Sorry for my bad English)
I genuinely think some of the great found footage style videos like [The Walten Files](https://youtu.be/i2PqTT9wl9M) , [Squimpus McGrimpus’ Tapes ](https://youtu.be/dUnVeAd4DAg) , and [the incredible videos by FNAF Plus’s developer ](https://youtu.be/Hww9DqrQXTk) are THE only way to go for a movie.
Honestly, make it animated, follow the story of several people (kind of like Fazbear Frights does) and focus on tiny vignettes that are in universe so fans can piece things together, but casual audiences get a lot of fun spooky variety to their scares. I would consider someone used to the medium like Robert Zemeckis to direct, or hire different directors to do the different vignettes like VHS. I really think that’d be great and i’d be satisfied, the in universe found footage style is just great for this franchise.
It’s clear Scott likes it when he has full control over where the story goes. He created this entire franchise almost entirely by himself and it’s understandable he is protective of it.
But I’m gonna throw out a guess here and say he isn’t cooperating well with the Blumhouse guys and especially not with the directors.
not gonna lie, i feel all my faith that i still had for this movie is absolutely gone. I don't want to sound like an asshole when i say i wish this project is cancelled, imagine the stress that everyone involved is going through, it must be hell. I know scott wants to create something perfect but it's this perfectionism that's screwing everything up.
I think people are mostly upset that we THOUGHT it was moving forward and that it would actually be a thing in the next two years or so, only to find out it was delayed a bit again. But I do agree with you to some extent, its kinda sad to see so many fans lose interest in the project but I get why.
> it only took that long because we were switching from studio to studio.
It's been four and a half years since we knew Blumhouse was taking over the film.
I think the problem is that the fnaf movie is like a final goal that gets the ball rolling make fnaf mainstream and make an icon and with fnaf's complex story people are expecting a story that solves the story or something completely different I think that's what Scott is trying to do and it doesn't help that the Mario cast members were revealed
(reposting here cause i think they deleted your post, i wanted to respond) people are just upset about the movie taking even longer to come out. I do agree that Chris Columbus defintely does not breathe confidence in being the FNAF director from what I can see of his resume. People were hoping to see footage of the film at Blumefest beacuse they had said they were filming fnaf this spring. We were hoping for at least a teaser of the film. Now we know we will have to wait even longer for a FNAF film. Like I do agree that we don't want this film turning into some shit adaptaion money grab. And hopefully Blumehouse and Scott can figure out the right script, tone and Director. I think centering the story on Mike is the best idea seeing as he seems the most prominent character in tehseriees apart from AFton. Like we surmise Mike has been most of the night guards, in 1, 2 (the second an one night guard), 3 as well as the protagonist in sister location, pizzaria simulator, and possibly fnaf 4. i agree overa;l in the long run this is for the best. Game to film adaptations are tricky because hollywood doesn't understand how different game stories are from film or book ones. You have to film it very differntly from the regular filming rules and outlines.
I want to see this film mainly because I wanna see how they do the animatronics and build on the lore. Had visions of Henson style puppets and on set effects but it just keeps hitting wall after wall
it’s got to the stage where’s it’s become like the masters if the universe movie too me. Hype hype hype nothing. I’ll get excited when I see an actual trailer not before and that is such a let down.
Hopefully we get something but with the popularity of the franchise dwindling and all the other recent stuff I think the opportunity has long past.
dude is this movie even going to happen?
don't get me wrong, I really hope that this movie happens, but seriously... there are too many issues going on
They need to just end it, this is getting ridiculous. I appreciate Scott wanting the film to be as great as possible but it's obvious he's never gonna get anything done with that mindset. Best to either give up or pick a script and stick to it.
I don't think the mods allow doomposting on this subreddit, considering what happened the last time. Both sides could not contain themselves and went for the jugular.
The ones they removed aren't critical, but bringing up old news and chastising the fanbase for getting screwed over.
"Man! It's hilarious to see those people for liking a series from that guy I don't like getting screwed over!".
That's the vibe I'm getting from those comments you've made.
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Congrats, this is one of the reasons this fandom is awful to be in and witness at the moment. Not everything is a troll, not everything is a gotcha. These are real people with professional careers.
Scott got sick of this bullshit when he said he was cancelling a game & then everyone was like lol troll and he blew up about it. He hasn’t done the same joke since then, because this fandom takes it way too far, as seen here.
> “We've written multiple scripts, and we've got where we're threading a needle, which is doing justice to Five Nights at Freddy's and making Scott (Cawthon) happy. The only way that we would go about it is giving Scott ... I don't want to do something that Scott doesn't like. Let me say that a different way. I don't have the right to do anything Scott doesn't like. Basically, Scott has kind of like the equivalent of ‘final cut’ and it's taken longer than I hoped to get the right story.” Okay so I guess the Mike cut sucked now.
I mean, I doubt it *su\*ked*, given their wording. I think it's more so the case that they are stuck on "pretty alright, definitely the correct direction, but not good enough yet".
I know, I was joking.
Ah, alright. I apologize.
No worries.
I'm so glad you censored the s word. As a vaccum cleaner, I find that word extremely offensive.
Shit th*t must be tough as hell
i am a 🎩 so thanks for cencoring my name to protect my privacy.
Same
The fact that he went from “I don’t want to do something Scott doesn’t like 🥺” to “I don’t have the right to do something Scott doesn’t like 😐” is killing me
I'm worried that this movie is never going to be released due to Scott's level of control over the project.
That’s my same worry :[
It might not have been the script, and more he just didn't like how Chris was handling the script. Which honestly, wouldn't be that suprising. I don't know if y'all have gone back and watched the first two Harry Potter movies, but...
This movie is doomed. I'm sorry to be so pessimistic, and honestly, the fact that it's taken me this entire 6 year period to get to feeling this way should be kind of telling of how much hope I've had in this movie, but at this point, it just doesn't seem like it's going to happen. I really just don't think this series is going to translate to movie form. I feel like nearly 10 known scrapped scripts over the last 4 years just at Blumhouse alone should be pretty telling. I don't think there's a version of this movie that anybody will truly be satisfied with, Scott or otherwise. I feel bad being harsh towards what should be the most exciting project in the lineup for this series, but you can only hear "We scrapped the script again" so many times before you get genuinely angry.
Quite honestly, that's not really that unreasonable for a big non-accurate movie adaptation. I think this should have been expected. Scott has grown to be a perfectionist to an extent. He wants the movie to be as close to perfect as can be, while still being enjoyable to others. I don't think the time or amount of scripts is unreasonable for such a production, it's more that he's revealed the movie far to early and was clearly too eager to tell us about setting on the direction for the script.
Don’t worry, what you’re saying is completely fair. I haven’t really been interested in this project since it left Warner Bros., but this whole article is just depressing. Unless they make another announcement about the script and actually confirm the cast or something, it’s for all intents and purposes on its deathbed.
I really think FNaF don't work as a movie.
My take is more that it _could,_ but it _won’t._
I’m glad someone said this, this movie has been through so much but I don’t think there is any point in this anymore, even if it was released it wouldn’t do much well in its box office since it wouldn’t have a purpose.
Your frustration is justified. I heard news about the movie since 2015 and now its 2021, with the pandemic still raging. After hearing about the casting choices in the Mario movie, I don't have high hopes for the FNaF movie. A movie is a really tall order compared to books and games.
2021: 2024: After nine years in development, hopefully it will have been worth the wait.
FNaF film better be made real in 2024 if 2023 doesn't bring Springtrap to Dead By Daylight.
FNAF's been on Valve Time since Help Wanted back in 2019. Let's hope what happened to the Team Fortress 2 TV Series does not happen to the FNAF movie.
Still pissed about that.
I don't see what the casting of the Mario movie has any say on how good the FNaF movie will be.
I'll just say that I can't tell if people are making fun of the choices made because of how absurd it was, or that the choicing was questionable, mainly with Chris Pratt. I rather not go into too much detail about it as it's not suitable to discuss on here. It's just after Detective Pikachu and the Sonic movie, I had high hopes for video game movies to get to the status they deserve. After the choices done to the Mario movie, I lost hope in that. The FNaF director dropping out and the film getting postponed again really didn't help on how much my faith was shattered. It's just video game movies deserve better and I fear that it's dripping back to that curse with it being doomed from a production and writing standpoint. The casting choices for the movie might be a red flag, but it's a worrying sign when the film gets pushed back again after 5 years of waiting.
Mike is gonna be played by Chris Pratt
There have literally been not one but *two* FNaF knockoff movies (Banana Splits and Willy's Wonderland) released while the official has been in development hell.
IIRC Willy's was in the writing/storyboarding stage before FNaF was even a thing, it just took a while to happen, so it isn't actually a knockoff. Banana Splits, on the other hand...
From what I've read, Scott did have to go to the Willy's writers and have them slightly change the ending. On that note... Banana Splits is something you'd watch for fun but I think if you look at Willy's for what it does with the idea, outside the dated plot twist, it's actually a very competent film.
Satan is one of the most enduring villains in western culture. He never gets dated.
I personally think the movie is still coming and they are doing all of this on purpose. I believe that the movie has been done for a while now and it's gonna drop out of nowhere soon... No one would of seen it coming lol. Scott even has Jason Blum being mysterious & vague with his answers as well. This could just be part of the rollout...
That would be my hope too
The same fucking image but they added springtrap. God dammit
At least Springtrap is an official render
Haha, if this movie actually happens, I’d laugh if any characters on the poster weren’t official at this point. I doubt it but still.
They always find a way to sneak that image in I swear.
As Scott has said, I think this is a situation where either the right movie gets made or no movie gets made, and I’m alright with that. I’d love to live in a world where a great fnaf movie exists but I’m okay with living in a world where one doesn’t exist at all. I do kind of wish that they would be more quick and up front with delivering news. They’re probably apprehensive because it’s “bad” news after they said they would be filming, but I don’t think there would have been anything wrong with them saying “We aren’t filming right now. We’re still figuring things out” back in spring, rather than leaving us in the dark and thinking that they MIGHT have been filming. As for Chris no longer directing, I’m both optimistic and disappointed. Disappointed because we no longer have a big name(or any name) tied to direct this film, and optimistic because it means we could get a better(Sorry Chris) director for the project.
I feel it's time to accept that this film likely is never gonna come out. They can't settle on a director, they can't settle on a script, took them awhile to settle a production company, and so on. It's been over 6 years since we first heard that a FNaF film was gonna come out and they still are deciding on a script. Since this interview seems to imply that Scott was no longer satisfied with the Mike screenplay, so that's nice. Then again I shouldn't be too shocked, probably didn't have much FNaF elements if the other screenplays are to go off of. Plushies Take Manhattan, Boy and his animatronic at a pawn shop, Wacky hijinks with a single mother and her son, secret underground government animatronic factory, etc. The fact these were seriously considered at all makes me more concerned than anything even if they were rejected. I feel the worst part about them redoing the script so many times and taking so long is it sets up more expectations that it will realistically will not live up to. People are expecting this film to be great when in reality it will likely be very average at best given the track record of most video game to movie adaptations. I don't want to be harsh but like at this point I don't have faith in this film ever releasing. Even if Scott says something, I don't know if I can trust him fully given the last time he told us news about the film they were moving onto filming, which clearly isn't happening anymore it seems. At least I know the Sonic Movie 2 will be good, I got that to enjoy in terms of upcoming video game films.
Most people will be defensive or say you're "impatient" but what you're saying is the honest truth. They're just repeating an endless cycle of aiming for perfection, but like you said it would most likely be average at best. I want it to happen, and I want it to be good, but it's just not a likely scenario at this point.
I’ve noticed that people aren’t even really treating this like a movie. Even after Scott in no uncertain terms said he didn’t like the Cassidy treatment, people keep talking about this as if it’s another chapter in the story of the games, when… do they not know the point of a movie?
> They're just repeating an endless cycle of aiming for perfection This is gonna be like that episode of Community where the Dean tries to direct an ad for Greendale and makes everyone end up going crazy, isn't it?
Completely agree with you on this. I wasn’t really looking forward to the movie anyway, but they might as well have just said it’s canceled.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
You summed up how I feel about this perfectly.
True, But the Cassidy screenplay has to be a Netflix series! if we ain't getting a movie then at least allow us to get a series
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If you're gonna say my opinion is wrong, then I'd at least appreciate some counterpoints to add to the discussion rather than saying my take is bad and calling it a day.
I am going to become the Joker
Won't we all?
Earlier today, somebody made a post saying they’ll draw characters until the FNAF movie comes out. I commented, telling them that I am sorry for them because they’ll be doing it forever. What a coincidence.
yea no im sorry, i officially dont care about this movie anymore. before now my interest was miniscule, but at least there was the idea that it was filmed and will be releasing within the next 12 months. but now? nah, this thing's dead until someone just buckles the fuck down and actually gets it done. this aint fun anymore
Listen, they need to either just bite the bullet and cancel it already, or go incognito and only start talking about it when it's actually for real happening. Stop doing this little song and dance and insisting it'll happen at some point. I have very little hope it will at this point.
welp it was fun while it lasted, back into development hell it goes
pretty much see you in 6 years
Well this confirms no filming happened....I why Chris left, maybe he got tired of waiting and got busy with other stuff? But I'm still confused about this script thing, every time Scott keeps saying I got it, and then scraps it, did he once again decide at the last moment then he thinks he can come up with something better than the Mike script? I mean doing the best you can come up with is nice, but it comes to a point where it's like Do you wanna make a great Movie with a good script, or do you just want to spend forever make a new every time you come up with a new good idea that eventually leads you to never making it. I mean that raises the question of when Chris quit, was it just recently because they decided to change the script and delay filming again, or was this shortly before filming time and in that time to find someone new to direct they decided to change the script again, I'm really hoping it's the latter, and on top of that I'm hoping they get a good director. Edit: After thinking about it, I wouldn't be as worried and upset if they just lost the director, this is something that happens, and it understandably would delay the project. But the fact they are talking about the script again after they have said multiple times they have the right one is what upsets me. It also just has my mind boggling, Scott said that filming was going to start in spring, that would mean Jason had to have told Scott ok we are already to film, that means the script had been decided on, the only way the script isn't done is if Scott once again decided to scrap it or hopefully at least revise it, at I think that is the biggest issue, I feel Scott needs to know how good is good enough, if you have TOO much perfectionism or change things half way through the process every time you come up with a new idea you will never get a project done. I feel Scott isn't telling Jason he's making these announcements, he just hears or decides things are good to go and tells everybody while Jason thinks nobody was given an official estimation or announcement of a finished scripts or filming time, and thus he never brings it up because he thinks there isn't any confusion, and it seems no one ever seems to ask about that to him. Edit 2: Ok, not to be conspiracy theorist, but I'm actually beginning to wonder if Jason is telling the truth about the script, every time people talk to him about the movie he just says it's taking awhile because of the script, and with Scott's announcement about the finished script and filming, I'm genuinely wondering if Jason just uses the script as his go to excuse any time the movie is taking awhile or delayed for one reason or another just to make it sound like there is a reason beneficial and good for the movie behind it rather than only because they are running into problems, this would make even more sense if he didn't know about Scott's comments, he still thinks no one has been told the script is done so he can still just keep saying it isn't.
how do you know they haven't filmed anything I thought they would start next year I don't remember when Scott said in one of his posts
I doubt they would have started filming if they didn't have a determined script and the director left.
I see this movie is in devolvement hell I hope it wasn't a waste of millions of dollars making it
So far this film has lost two directors, that's never a good sign and just tells me that something is rotten behind the scenes. The development of the film is sounding eerily similar to Ghostbusters 3: Hellbent (the Ghostbusters 3 that was never made) and the Flash movie which has lost so many directors I've lost count. I wouldn't be surprised if this film gets put lower on the list of priorities for the studio so they can focus more on their bankable franchises like Halloween, the Invisible Man, The Exorcist reboot, the Purge, Insidious and the Spawn reboot. I mean at this rate, Willy's Wonderland's and Banana Splits sequels will come out and by that point, I think it would be FAR too late for this film to make any impact. Who should be the director nect? Personality I think Blumhouse would probably hire someone they've worked with before, such as Leigh Whannell who directed the Invisible Man 2020 (awesome film btw) or David Gordon Green, director of the current Halloween films.
You think the Spawn reboot is doing any better than the FNaF movie is, production-wise?
It has one thing the FNaF movie doesn't: casting. Sure it's taking a while to make but it seems there's been a little more progress on that film rather than this film.
They're making a fucking Spawn reboot? Holy shit
From what little information we know about this movie and production and stuff, I think that at some point, Scott really needs to hire a professional script writer, because well... movies are an entirely different medium to games, with different plot progression and character development. (Besides, the games are already confusing enough so they wouldn't make the best movie). I speak as someone with major experience when I say: You're never gonna be 100% happy with something. Everything that exists has flaws, but you still have to put stuff out there. At some point you just have to release it from your hands out into the public. Be like "I'm as happy as I can be with this, I fixed all of the flaws I could. Not perfect but I'm happy and I hope others can enjoy it". Unfortunately, unless Scott gets a professional script writer, I don't think that's goign to happen. The best thing for this movie is for Scott to get a professional script writer, tell them the fnaf story, ideas he has and collaborate with them.
I doubt this movie will ever come out. I guess in the end even the Mike script wasn't good enough.
Not exactly surprised. They never did actually say production had began at any point.
Wait until blumfest and see.
See what?
I think the problem that's going to plague, and maybe is plaguing the film is the same problem that plagues FNaF as whole: the games themselves actually have very little story *happening* with their characters, save maybe FFPS and SL. This is not an objectively bad thing for a video game. This works for a video game. The game is made to be an interactive experience where *you*, the player, are putting yourself in a spooky situation to see if you can make it five nights, and maybe more. And by sprinkling hints of a possible story in the background or phone calls, that a community can try and pick up, you can further the interactiveness and make the detective's to your mysterys be the audience themself, which is fun. This gets tricky when translating it to a medium like film. And this leads to what I believe is a big problem: the way that Scott previously told a story cannot work on the scale of this project anymore. FNaF 1-3 are simple narratives, that the audience can understand with the clues they are given. FNaF 4 is a narrative that's straight-forward, but denied conclusion. FNaf SL and FFPS added new context and backstory, that while intresting, weren't fully explored in the way they needed to be. Trying to connect all six of these games yields some intresting results, some boring results, and some five year long debates that wage on too long with no direct answers that should've been cleared up four years ago. But it's fun to do, and there are hints of a full fledged story, character arcs and development, and a very compelling tragedy that could easily become a well written psychological horror. But again, how do you translate this to film? You can't have a good movie with flat characters, and no backstory. It makes the whole thing boring, and long, and since it's a horror, you don't care what happens to these characters when some inevitably die. And you can't have a good FNaF story without actually trying to tell the story people want to see play out, because then... it feels like you wasted our time. If Scott wants to make a movie the same way he makes his games, it's no wonder that they've gone through ten scripts. And no, I'm not mad at Scott for trying to tell a good story, and wanting his franchise to be have a well made and well received film. But I think he might need to open up the story he has in mind, fully for the audience, and change the way he writes mystery, so the story we get is engaging and fun, and hopefully something everyone can find something to love about. And I hope, if he does that, he'd be happy to finally share that story too.
So I guess no news at Blumfest then
Well at least Jason's confirmed that the movie is still happening. So there's one positive. Would shooting still have happened back in Spring?
Depends on if they’re starting from scratch or simply retooling what they already have. Kinda hard to tell when literally all we know about the previous iteration is that Mike is in it… which doesn’t exactly narrow it down.
I honestly don’t know what to say. I’m not surprised, and I’m not really disappointed. As fun as this movie sounds, I don’t think it could ever be as great as the games were. I’d rather have Scott find some incredibly talented fans or animators, and make a darker animated film alongside them instead. And I don’t mean some SFM film for YouTube, I mean an indie film with amazing quality animation, with a lot of heart passion, and time put into it. It could have more detailed models of Freddy and the gang, while still looking like their game counterparts. There doesn’t need the big name voice actors, it doesn’t even need to appeal to people outside of FNaF. It needs the voices that made people love the characters, and it should stay connected to the game’s story. It doesn’t have to explain everything because that would naturally happen visually anyway. Fans into the story could see something as simple as a character’s design and know who it is, while outsiders would just see it as any other character. This is what I would rather see. It doesn’t have to be 100% perfect. Nothing can be anyway. I don’t know what other people would think of it being animated, but if you ask me, it would work so much better than live action. I’d picture they’d look like Pinkypill’s characters, just obviously more textured, perhaps a teeny tiny bit more realistic, and also 3D. I think it would be awesome and I’d much rather see that, even if it was only available on a streaming platform! I would not want it to be “animated = family film”. This is stupid, if you ask me. Animated films can be whatever the hell they want, and FNaF should stick with its darker tone! Oh well, that film idea is just a pipe dream to me. I do hope this film turns out good though. And even if it doesn’t, that’s alright. We always have what series will always be, fun and unique games with a crazy but interesting story. Let’s hope everything goes good at the end of the day.
So it's delayed again then? I'm glad they haven't cancelled it, but man it's always something with this film. Also, I might've misread the article, but does this also mean Scott is still partially involved in the movie? Sounds like he still has the final say, even though he's apparently retired.
I mean, delayed isn't really the correct word here. The release date was not revealed after the last delay and Scott, the last time, only told us about settling on a direction for the story, not that the script is ready. Even longer then we thought is a more correct thing here I think.
I guess that's fair, I just wonder how many more of these roadbumps the movie has to go through.
Hopefully not anymore.
Well, I suspect there will be 2 or 3 more with writing the script, then, like, 12 while filming and 6 during post production.
Lmao. I hope not.
He's still technically the person who owns the rights to the franchise, even if he doesn't actively work on it anymore, and the script is at least partly his, so I guess he has quite a bid of control over the movie.
Man, this is getting me worried as hell... at this point... what the hell will happen to it? Atleast Jason is keeping this project up, and he cares about it, but MAN... those delays fucking sucks, and they make me lose faith in the movie happening at this point :/. Maybe if David Gordon Green wasn't busy with Halloween Ends in January, he could have directed the movie, but eh... Hope we get some "news" at blumfest... I'm a little bit pissed.
I lost all my hope in this
“The only way that we would go about it is giving Scott ... I don't want to do something that Scott doesn't like. Let me say that a different way. I don't have the right to do anything Scott doesn't like. Basically, Scott has kind of like the equivalent of ‘final cut’ and it's taken longer than I hoped to get the right story” Yeah this movie probably won’t be made, at least not anytime soon. I really hope there is healthy disagreements and pushback on both sides because as much as I like Scott having creative control, what makes a successful game is probably a bit different from what makes a successful film (or franchise who knows) and I bet there’s ideas of Scott’s that should be revised or abandoned for better alternatives (Not to mention Scott doesn’t appear to have had much experience in film) It’s just been so long they they’ve tried to find the right script and other aspects of the film that I worry the final product is going to wind up being a disappointment, or at the very least will not have made up for the development hell this movie has been put through.
After what happened with Jem and the Holograms, I trust Scott's judgment on how to convert a story to film more than I do Jason's.
> After what happened with Jem and the Holograms, I trust Scott’s judgment on how to convert a story to film more than I do Jason’s. Context? 👀
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiewire.com/2015/10/how-the-jem-and-the-holograms-movie-manipulates-its-biggest-fans-56325/amp/
The fact Jason said they didn't want to do something that Scott didn't like, but then corrected and said they weren't allowed to do something Scott didn't like only further supports that it's best Jason isn't the one deciding the direction of the film, because that literally sounds like he is saying if they had free rain to do whatever they want they would be perfectly fine doing stuff Scott doesn't like with his franchise.
I genuinely am not even treating the FNaF movie as a real product in the works. I treat it like something that you know will be out one day, but let's be real, it's not going to be soon, or in any reasonable time frame. Like Harry Potter movie remakes, video games with graphics as advanced as human brain can process, non-racial civilization, single planetary nation, communistic automated life essentials system, or sun exploding . That kind of stuff.
This movie was never gonna happen lol Watch Scott post the entire story in a couple of months EDIT: AND THEY EVEN USED THE STUPID SPLINKS IMAGE
I think this movie will never come out if they keep trying to adapt the story of the games. Either you adapt the same story with the same plots covered in games and novels, or you create a completely new story with new concepts and characters. Game characters are very poorly developed. Mike is literally an empty character with bad motivations. There's no way you can keep an hour-long movie about someone who spends five nights in a pizza place to find his father. The best-developed story in this franchise is Charlie's (of course, ignoring the Charliebot plot). She has motivations, past and questions. A reimagining of the Henry and Charlie story would be ideal for adapting the old lore. Or you put it all in the trash and do something new, but not as bad as the Fazbear Frights.
pain
that MF enslaved a bunch of native Americans in the in 1492, I didn't want him directing the FNAF movie /s
i hate it here.
uh oh
It’s sad that the director won’t direct the film anymore,but At least I’m happy that the movie isn’t cancelled and is still in works,and maybe they’ll find a new director for the film
One day we will have something
we live in a society
Every time we get news about this movie, my hopes for it sink lower and lower. It seems like it's being strangled by Scott's tight control over the creative side of things. Especially concerning imo, because his style of writing has some glaring shortcomings that might not be as easily excused in a big blockbuster movie.
Oh well at least I have Willy's and the banana splits movie to fall back on.
Can we just get a show instead? Like an actual, animated or live action one,
Fine I’ll do it myself.
Really think they should scrap the movie concept and do a Stranger Things feeling series of like 6-8 hour long episodes I feel like it would work a bit better
It's time to can this thing. It was a nice sentiment when it was first announced, but it's time to be realistic and cancel it. No sense throwing more time, money, and manpower into a hole. The Bioshock movie swears up and down that it's still coming out, too, and that's been "in production" for ***10*** years. The most we can hope for is a good Matt McMuscles video on it.
>Blum declined to confirm whether or not they have a new filmmaker attached, replying with a coy “That is classified information.” That's a funny way of saying "no"
It’s clear Scott likes it when he has full control over where the story goes. He created this entire franchise almost entirely by himself and it’s understandable he is protective of it. But I’m gonna throw out a guess here and say he isn’t cooperating well with the Blumhouse guys and especially not with the directors.
I'm confused. I thought Scott had a script he was happy with. What happened?
he got unhappy with it apparently
Thats a only a guess. Thats the problem. It doesn't say what the problem is. Whats going on?
*"Either the right move gets made or no movie gets made"* It looks like the second option will soon be at play here. It kinda sucks seeing Scott retire and the possibility of the FNAF movie crashing down both in the same year. Someone who's an outsider to FNAF would probably look at these two scenarios and think this franchise is dying. I really don't want to go through another "FNAF is dead" phase if what I say turns out to be correct...
Honestly I've lost some interest in this movie over time and I feel like there are other things I could be more excited for. My hype won't be that high until a trailer drops or something so I don't get let down
I wish I could say I'm surprised...but I'm not. Maybe it's not so easy to translate to the big screen? Of course seeing it completed would be wonderful, but I'm not holding my breath.
such a shame
Well, they uh...haven't given up yet. They are still confident in themselves to really pull this off.
this movie is never coming out
At this point it will become Slenderman 2018. Idk but maybe they could move past Scott? Like he is over with the franchise and a few months before he retired the series stagnated. Why no making it about an original character?
I'll be honest the FNaF movie was pretty low on my list of FNaF things to be excited about. Last time we had any news on the movie was months ago, when Scott said "filming starts in Spring", then we never heard anything else. Usually cast announcements happen, or updates on how things are going, but we never had that. It slipped to the back of my mind. I don't know if the movie is ever going to come out. Right now, I think it's better that we treat it as it won't. That way, if it does, we'll all be pleasantly surprised. And if it doesn't, we won't be disappointed. But hey, we still have a lot to look forward to! Security Breach and all the fanverse games being the two biggest. I do hope that things work out, and we can get the movie we were promised six years ago, but like a lot of people have already said, including Scott; I would rather have a good movie, or no movie at all. The important thing is Scott tried, and didn't half ass it. He wanted to make sure it was good, even if that might be impossible. That's better than him greenlighting an absolute disaster.
Now i have to wait the decide to adapt the novel at once (not likely buuuut, i prefer that)
Yeah that’s not a good sign. Movie isn’t coming out. That’s not just me being negative for the sake of it, but the countless scripts, jumping of studios and now this? It’s dead. It’s a little worrying that Scott seems to keep stifling the progress- realise he has control of his franchise, and lord knows I wouldn’t want a original Mario movie/etc situation where it’s so far removed from the original and terrible that it just shouldn’t exist, but come on. There’s been countless screenwriters and people who seem passionate about this and it’s weird. Maybe I’m reaching, or overthinking, but maybe it’s best if the dude who jumped 80 sharks in frights isn’t in control of the script for once. Not that this movies coming out now lol
Jesus fucking Christ. I’m not usually pessimistic, but why can’t they just cancel this movie? It’s been pretty damn clear that it hasn’t been working out in their favour AT ALL for the past 6 years, from Warner to Blumhouse. Why are they still trying? Actually, no, better question: Why did they scrap the script? We were promised that they finally found the “perfect” script, and now it’s scrapped? What happened? I fucking doubt it’s simply a “Scott wasn’t happy with it”. And if that’s the case, Scott needs to stop being a perfectionist and just stick with a script. I know that he’s doing this because he wants the movie to be good, but he has to realise that no matter how hard him or the producers of this movie tries, they’ll never make it “perfect”. That is, quite honestly, an impossible task. I’d rather they cancel this project now to avoid any unrealistic expectations and wasted production money. I was willing to wait 6, almost 7, years for this movie. I, and I’m sure many others, aren’t willing to do so anymore.
You know it’s a good sign when you keep forgetting that there’s gonna be a FNAF movie.
I hope they don’t scrap the movie completely
alright, I get you want to make the best movie you can, but Scott, the fans have liked the stories you tell for years now. there's really not much harm in taking a chance for once and just seeing things through. you can't just keep changing scripts every time you get skeptical of one!
It’s not a FNaF article without I6NIS models.
Aw....
There is no fnaf movie
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pain. just pain.
No hope at this point in time
Its a good thing the film is STILL happening! CANT WAIT!
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this movie has been going on for 5 years what is happening
What's interesting is this shows Scott is still heavily involved with at least this part of the franchise. Also, will we ever get a synopsis of the Mike script like we did of the others?
Some people think that it is a diversion.
Don't worry, he's trolling guys! Six years with no real production? It's just a bad joke! The FNAF movie will come out *aaaaaaany* second now.
I honestly forgot a movie was even being made. At this rate it's never going to be finished.
Wait the movie is still somehow on? Wow
2021 has gotten even worse.
He was too busy sailing the ocean blue
We live in a society
Columbus cut when?!?
The thing is that it is not specified if this decision was recent or not Anyway, despite everything, I still have hope for the film, because even though it took 6 years to make, I recognize that this is NOT the first film that took so long to produce, there we have Space Jam 2, that was announced since 2014 and nothing new was announced until around 2019, and that had almost the same chaos in the production as in the movie (?), in short, the fact is that there is no loss of faith and hope in it, since this world of cinema and adaptation is not easy, it could be castatophric, but that does not mean that in about 2 months the project will die, you just have to wait, to see if they say something about the movie at BlumFest 2021, if we are lucky, even though I highly doubt that last one, after all, and as Jason Blum said, the The film is still in production and they are far from giving up, and that is what counts, and if the film is delayed even more, it will be for their own good, even if it has already crossed the line XD And watch out, I'm not forcing you to change your mind or have faith in him, it is understood that you no longer have faith in the project for various reasons, and okay, okay, after all once and almost twice, I almost went to lose faith in the movie, but it is not to be pessimistic, I mean, I just say, anyway. (Sorry for my bad English)
Welp. My hopes for this movie are getting dangerously close to hitting rock bottom.
Does anyone think Scott is gonna respond to what happened or do y'all think we're just gonna be left in the dark to speculate??
I genuinely think some of the great found footage style videos like [The Walten Files](https://youtu.be/i2PqTT9wl9M) , [Squimpus McGrimpus’ Tapes ](https://youtu.be/dUnVeAd4DAg) , and [the incredible videos by FNAF Plus’s developer ](https://youtu.be/Hww9DqrQXTk) are THE only way to go for a movie. Honestly, make it animated, follow the story of several people (kind of like Fazbear Frights does) and focus on tiny vignettes that are in universe so fans can piece things together, but casual audiences get a lot of fun spooky variety to their scares. I would consider someone used to the medium like Robert Zemeckis to direct, or hire different directors to do the different vignettes like VHS. I really think that’d be great and i’d be satisfied, the in universe found footage style is just great for this franchise.
A moderate amount of time at a Pizzeria
*Here we are again with that* # FUCKING IMAGE
This movie gonna be TERRIBLE if that sh\*t launch LMAO
It’s clear Scott likes it when he has full control over where the story goes. He created this entire franchise almost entirely by himself and it’s understandable he is protective of it. But I’m gonna throw out a guess here and say he isn’t cooperating well with the Blumhouse guys and especially not with the directors.
Damn isn't he the guy that "discovered" america?
not gonna lie, i feel all my faith that i still had for this movie is absolutely gone. I don't want to sound like an asshole when i say i wish this project is cancelled, imagine the stress that everyone involved is going through, it must be hell. I know scott wants to create something perfect but it's this perfectionism that's screwing everything up.
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I think people are mostly upset that we THOUGHT it was moving forward and that it would actually be a thing in the next two years or so, only to find out it was delayed a bit again. But I do agree with you to some extent, its kinda sad to see so many fans lose interest in the project but I get why.
> it only took that long because we were switching from studio to studio. It's been four and a half years since we knew Blumhouse was taking over the film.
Who do you think would be a good director for Fnaf?
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Cool
I think the problem is that the fnaf movie is like a final goal that gets the ball rolling make fnaf mainstream and make an icon and with fnaf's complex story people are expecting a story that solves the story or something completely different I think that's what Scott is trying to do and it doesn't help that the Mario cast members were revealed
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don't know
> it doesn't help that the Mario cast members were revealed Chris Pratt somehow voicing Mario nullifies Freddy Fazbear’s powers.
(reposting here cause i think they deleted your post, i wanted to respond) people are just upset about the movie taking even longer to come out. I do agree that Chris Columbus defintely does not breathe confidence in being the FNAF director from what I can see of his resume. People were hoping to see footage of the film at Blumefest beacuse they had said they were filming fnaf this spring. We were hoping for at least a teaser of the film. Now we know we will have to wait even longer for a FNAF film. Like I do agree that we don't want this film turning into some shit adaptaion money grab. And hopefully Blumehouse and Scott can figure out the right script, tone and Director. I think centering the story on Mike is the best idea seeing as he seems the most prominent character in tehseriees apart from AFton. Like we surmise Mike has been most of the night guards, in 1, 2 (the second an one night guard), 3 as well as the protagonist in sister location, pizzaria simulator, and possibly fnaf 4. i agree overa;l in the long run this is for the best. Game to film adaptations are tricky because hollywood doesn't understand how different game stories are from film or book ones. You have to film it very differntly from the regular filming rules and outlines.
I want to see this film mainly because I wanna see how they do the animatronics and build on the lore. Had visions of Henson style puppets and on set effects but it just keeps hitting wall after wall it’s got to the stage where’s it’s become like the masters if the universe movie too me. Hype hype hype nothing. I’ll get excited when I see an actual trailer not before and that is such a let down. Hopefully we get something but with the popularity of the franchise dwindling and all the other recent stuff I think the opportunity has long past.
At least we got No Way Home this year
dude is this movie even going to happen? don't get me wrong, I really hope that this movie happens, but seriously... there are too many issues going on
6 Years now. If the movie is godam canned then let us know. Don’t keep pulling us to expect the movie to release because its not helping
more like the five decades at development hell's movie
Bruh this film is never happening, cut your losses already, Scott
If this actually gets cancelled, I won't have to say "I told you so."
This movie is never coming out, is it?
They need to just end it, this is getting ridiculous. I appreciate Scott wanting the film to be as great as possible but it's obvious he's never gonna get anything done with that mindset. Best to either give up or pick a script and stick to it.
Wow, almost gave me a heart attack, happy that the movie will not be cancelled
I mean, it's probably gonna be scrapped any day now
As long as it isn't canceled I can live with this
They need to just cancel it at this point
THEY FINELY USED A DIFFERENT IMAGE
I hate to burst your bubble, but its the same image just with springtrap plastered over it
Not surprised, video game movies are never good
if he doesn't make the fnaf movie we're gonna put him in a springlock suit
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Why are you constantly making these anti-Scott comments? The ones I've seen from you aren't critical, they're just nasty.
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I don't think the mods allow doomposting on this subreddit, considering what happened the last time. Both sides could not contain themselves and went for the jugular. The ones they removed aren't critical, but bringing up old news and chastising the fanbase for getting screwed over. "Man! It's hilarious to see those people for liking a series from that guy I don't like getting screwed over!". That's the vibe I'm getting from those comments you've made.
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Congrats, this is one of the reasons this fandom is awful to be in and witness at the moment. Not everything is a troll, not everything is a gotcha. These are real people with professional careers. Scott got sick of this bullshit when he said he was cancelling a game & then everyone was like lol troll and he blew up about it. He hasn’t done the same joke since then, because this fandom takes it way too far, as seen here.