The world is ready to be hunted down by terrifying animatronics, or at least that’s what it seems with the newFive Nights at Freddy’strailer bringing a brand new look at Universal’s upcoming movie.Five Nights at Freddy’swill bring the video game franchise of the same name to horrifying life on the big screen and there is a lot of high expectation on the movie to deliver all the chills and thrills of the mobile game that inspired it. Check out the newly released second trailer forFive Nights at Freddy’sbelow.
The terrifying horror game phenomenonFive Nights at Freddy’sbecomes a blood-chilling cinematic event, as Blumhouse - the producer ofM3GAN,The Black PhoneandThe Invisible Man -bringsFive Nights at Freddy’sto the big screen. The movie 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. Can you survive five nights?
Directed by Emma Tammi (The Wind, Blood Moon) and written by Scott Cawthon, Emma Tammi and Seth Cuddeback,Five Nights at Freddy’sstars Josh Hutcherson (Ultraman, The Hunger Gamesfranchise) as Mike Schmidt alongside Elizabeth Lail (You, Mack & Rita), Piper Rubio (Holly & Ivy, Unstable), Kat Conner Sterling (We Have a Ghost, 9-1-1), with Mary Stuart Masterson (Blindspot, Fried Green Tomatoes)and Matthew Lillard(Good Girls, Scream).
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The mainFive Nights at Freddy’svideo game series takes place over nine video games, each of which takes place in locations connected to the fictional family pizza restaurant, “Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza”, named after its mascot, the animatronic bear Freddy Fazbear. Based on the real-life chain Chuck E. Cheese, the restaurant inFive Nights at Freddy’scomes with one big difference – the animatronic characters are all haunted and looking to wreak bloody havoc. Bringing the likes of Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy to life on the big screen in theFive Nights at Freddy’swill be no easy feat, but luckily the movie has turned to some of the best to do just that, with the animatronic charactersbeing created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.
Five Nights at Freddy’sis likely to kickstart a new horror franchise for Blumhouse, with star Matthew Lillardrevealing earlier this yearthat he has signed on to play his role across three differentFive Nights at Freddy’smovies. And if there’s anything that Blumhouse knows how to do, it’s kickstart a major horror franchise.
Five Nights at Freddy’sis produced by Jason Blum and Scott Cawthon. The film’s executive producers are Bea Sequeira, Russell Binder and Christopher H. Warner. Universal Pictures presents a Blumhouse production, in association with Striker Entertainment.
Five Nights at Freddy’sis scheduled to be released simultaneously in theaters and on Peacock in the United States on July 20, 2025, by Universal Pictures.
