Five Nights At Freddy's (Film)

""Can you survive?""

- The movies tagline Five Nights At Freddy's is a movie inspired and based off the game of the same name, it is a mystery horror action movie. The movie is produced by HBO Inc. and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is directed by, produced and executive produced by Scott Cawthon, the creator of the original games, the screenplay is by Steven Spielberg, the story is by Kira Breed-Wrisely, the co-author of the Five Nights At Freddy's novels, it is written by Scott Cawthon and Kira Breed-Wrisely, and is composed by John Carpenter. The film stars Matthew Lillard as William Afton and Springtrap, Robert Downey Jr. as Henry Emily, Tom Holland as Michael Afton, Elizabeth Olsen as Clara Afton and Ballora, Dante Pereira-Olson as Evan Afton, Kathryn Newton as Elizabeth Afton, and John Hutcherson as Mike Schmidt. The film follow William Afton and Henry Emily, the two life long partners, handle and co-manage Fazbear's Ent, their child targeted pizzeria place, but after a few years, Afton becomes a crazed killer, and it is Henry's job to stop him.

The film started production in November 2019, it was originally a NETFLIX Original, but after NETFLIX failed to create fair negations with Scott Cawthon, production was dropped, and only picked back up by HBO Inc. in Late 2022, and started filming in late May 2023, and was released on June 13th, 2024, on HBO-Max, Hulu, and Vudu.

The movie got overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and fans alike, and got a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 9.4 on IMDb, and a 94 on Metascore. The movie grossed over a billion dollars within the first three weeks of it's opening, and at the end of it's run in theaters, it grossed over $2.5B. The movie was nominated for a Saturn Award, and won, it was also nominated for a Golden Globes Award, but lost two IT: CHAPTER 3. And it was officially nominated the highest grossing horror film of all time.

Synopsis
"Five Nights At Freddy's is a horror mystery action movie based off the game of the same name. The film follows Mike Schmidt, the new security guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, learning about the mysterious past of the pizzeria. The movie also follows the owners of the pizzeria, William Afton, and Henry Emily, Afton is a enthusiastic, passionate father of three, a husband, and the owner of Fazbear's Ent, and Henry Emily is a sarcastic, friendly father of two, a husband, and the co-owner of Fazbear's Ent.

Act 1
The film opens with an advertisement for Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and as the ad ends, the camera starts slowly panning outside a large TV inside of the home of Mike Schmidt, the camera then cuts to Mike, watching the TV, and as the announcer of the advertisement repeats the phone number for a job interview multiple times, Mike pulls out his IPhone and dials the number on the TV, he starts to wait for the call to answered, and after a few seconds, someone answers the call, and Mike asks about the job position and sets up an interview with William Afton. And few days pass after the interview with William and Mike ends up landing the job for a week long night shift position.

A time skip occurs and it is midnight on Monday, and Mike pulls up in his car, he gets out and grabs out his of drinks for the night, and he walks in the building. As he walks in, he looks to his left and see's the curtain that is hiding Freddy, Bonnie, and Chica, so he goes on the stage and takes a peak inside the dark stage, and sure enough, there they are, the animatronics, soullessly standing there. He leaves the stage and goes into his stage decorated with children's drawings of they're experience at the pizzeria. As Mike starts to use the cameras, the phone on the desk starts ringing, Mike picks up and then it stars blaring pre-recorded audio of a former night guard, that night guard leaves a few tips for Mike for his week on the job, like the power situation, but the thing that sets Mike off is how the person on the phone mentions how the animatronics get up during the night and start roaming around the place. The phone call finally ends after what seems like forever, and Mike starts using the cameras, and notices that the curtain to the front opened, and he goes to check the front, and as he does, the entire show from the day prior starts rehearsing, the animatronics are singing and waving, Mike figures out a switch in the back of the stage powers off the animatronics and lights, so he walks back there and turns them all off. As Mike is walking away, Freddy's eyes are following his head, he looks back, and Freddy is looking straight and standing still as if nothing happened. Mike walks back to his office, and gets out his phone and starts scrolling through YouTube, and as he does, he hears a loud thud in the front, so naturally, he goes and investigates the front of the place again, this time, a bit more annoyed, as this just happened. He looks at Freddy and notices his microphone fell right below him, so Mike crouches down and picks up the oversized microphone, and as he looks up, he sees Freddy leaning over him with his jaw wide open, he gets startled, and falls down off the stage, and he looks back at Freddy, and he's standing there straight, as if nothing happened. Mike runs to the office and closes both the doors. and he notices the power logo at the top right of his monitoring system is slowly going down. At this point, it is already 5 AM, Mike is relieved, but cautious, he looks at the cameras for the front stage, and nothing has changed. An hour passes, and the clock goes off, all the lights turn on, and Mike opens the doors, and exits his office, and notices Afton coming in for the day,

Main Characters
Mike Schmidt

William Afton

Henry Emily

Michael Afton

Evan Afton

Elizabeth Afton

Clara Afton


 * Josh Hutcherson as Mike Schmidt, A young, broke, quiet, internet obsessed 23 year old, lives with two other stoner roommates, however, is not like the two of his roommates.
 * Matthew Lillard as William Afton, an older, optimistic, passionate, and hard working owner of Fazbear's Ent. life-long friend of Henry Emily. Has a double-life as a murderer in an old Spring Bonnie costume. Manipulative, and very intelligent.
 * Elizabeth Olsen as Clara Afton, Wife of William Afton, very caring mother, very house-wife like, always concerned about William's well-being. Hard-working and an overall nice person
 * Robert Downey Jr. as Henry Emily, a very sarcastic, funny co-owner and close confidant of William Afton, despite being very sarcastic, is very understanding and concerned about William constantly due to his quiet behavior.
 * Tom Holland as Michael Afton, a very popular, influenced, high school student, basically a bully to his younger siblings, very cocky, disrespectful.
 * Dante Pereira-Olson as Evan Afton, a very shy, quiet young boy, around the age of 5-7, doesn't like getting into trouble, polar opposite of his brother.
 * Kathryn Newton as Elizabeth Afton, a very obedient outgoing and peppy daughter, sort of a suck-up to authorities and superiors. intelligent, makes great grades and shoves it it Michaels face.

Development
Production started in December of 2019 as a NETFLIX Original, but due to complications with NETFLIX, the project was dropped, but then HBO Ent picked it up and started filming Late 2023.

There were 2 original pitches for the movies, read as followed:

The "Plushies Take Manhattan" screenplay

Basic Setup: Plushies take Manhattan.

Problems: Plushies took Manhattan

Verdict: Burned with fire.

The "Silver Eyes" screenplay(s)

Basic Setup: Kira and I both worked on three versions of a Silver Eyes screenplay over the course of about a year, trying to find the right approach to the story from the first book.

Problems: These were the first attempts I made myself to write a screenplay after realizing it was going to be difficult to find someone else who understood the lore well enough to do it. Unfortunately, it also meant these screenplays suffered greatly from my inexperience at writing. Even Kira, with her writing expertise, couldn't save them.

Verdict: Although these had some good elements, I ultimately decided to focus on making a screenplay from the games and not from the books.

-Scott Cawthon, the director

the "Plushies Take Manhattan" pitch was scrapped due to straying to far from the source material, as said by Scott Cawthon himself. And the "Silver Eyes" pitch was scrapped due to Cawthon and Wrisely not having the capabilities to write a full on movie script.

later on, Cawthon remade the script after agreeing to work with HBO and the script was used for the movie.

Sequels
The movie was greenlit for 4 more movies, all of which being film adaptations to their game counterparts. However, "Five Night's At Freddy's 4" never got an on-screen adaptation, as (per Scott Cawthon's own words) "The movie would have been bland and boring, and it was already briefly explored in the flash-back sequences in the first movie."

The Movie "Five Night's At Freddy's: Afton Family" is a live action reinterpretation of the game "Five Night's At Freddy's: Pizzeria Simulator", due to the title of the game being clearly made for a game.

Five Night's At Freddy's 2

Five Nights At Freddy's 3

Five Night's at Freddy's: Sister Location

Five Night's At Freddy's: Afton Family

Soundtrack
For more about the soundtrack: Five Night's At Freddy's (Film) Official Soundtrack

The film featured John Carpenter composing the original tracks and score. The main theme is an saxophone version of The Living Tombstone's Five Night's At Freddy's 1 song.

Additionally, After Dark by Mr. Kitty, All You Are Going to Want to Do Is Get Back There by The Caretaker, and Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye