Gil Kenan To Helm Five Nights At Freddy’s Adaptation

If the movie will be based heavily on the video game, then the story will be about a security guard surviving for five nights in a demented pizza entertainment restaurant where homicidal, possessed animatronics roam the halls in search of their next victims. Kenan will write the script with Tyler Burton Smith whose previous writing credits include video games like “Sleeping Dogs” and “Prototype 2”.

The director of the Poltergeist remake, Gil Kenan, will take the helm for the Warner Bros production.

Few video games have creeped out the masses more than Five Nights at Freddy’s, created by Scott Cawthon and released in 2014.

Kenan first gained steam in the industry after directing the well received Monster House back in 2006, later also doing City of Ember in 2008. It’s not a terribly deep game, but there’s some interesting lore to the series and it provides some excellent job scares, so it’s easy to see how it could translate to a movie series that could be extremely popular with a younger audience. It was also announced previously that a Five Nights At Freddy’s movie was coming and now it has been revealed who will be directing the film. Roy Lee (The Ring, The Grudge, Godzilla) and Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln Vampire Slayer, Beetlejuice) will produce with David Katzenberg, Adam Stone and Jay Ireland executive producing. The game, which has to date spawned three sequels, was recently snapped up for a big screen adaptation by Warner Bros., and this week a director has been found.

As for us older fans, we remember Chuck-E-Cheese and Showbiz Pizza in their prime, and to have a horror-themed movie that touches on our nostalgia for those places, well, that’s pretty awesome.