Chris Columbus is directing a Five Nights at Freddy’s film adaptation for Blumhouse

Five Nights at Freddy’s is an indie video game series created, designed, developed, and published by Scott Cawthon.

The series mainly takes places in a fictional restaurant named Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. The first three games involve the player working as a nighttime security guard, in which they must utilize several tools, most notably checking security cameras, to survive against animatronic characters, which become mobile and homicidal after-hours.

Blumhouse has announced a film adaptation is in the works and Chris Columbus (Home Alone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Pixels) is writing, directing and producing it.

Jason Blum will produce the film along with Columbus and Cawthon, who launched the video game in 2014.

New Line and Warner Bros. had been trying to get an adaptation of the game sorted for the past few years, but Blumhouse bought the rights for the project last year when the project was put into turnaround by New Line.

What do you want to see in a Five Nights at Freddy’s film?

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— Blumhouse (@blumhouse) February 12, 2018