{"id":42886,"date":"2018-02-12T14:16:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T19:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=42886"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:38:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:38:46","slug":"chris-columbus-to-write-direct-and-produce-five-nights-at-freddys-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/12\/chris-columbus-to-write-direct-and-produce-five-nights-at-freddys-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Columbus To Write, Direct And Produce FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY&#8217;S Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-42888\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Five-Nights-At-Freddys-cast-678x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Five-Nights-At-Freddys-cast-678x381.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Five-Nights-At-Freddys-cast-339x191.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/>Video game adaptations are dicey prospects, but when you hire the writer who brought you <strong>Gremlins\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Goonies\u00a0<\/strong>and the director that brought you\u00a0<strong>Home Alone<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Mrs. Doubtfire\u00a0<\/strong>and the first two\u00a0<strong>Harry Potter\u00a0<\/strong>films, your prospects for success get way better. So, the prospects for the\u00a0<strong>Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong>film look really good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/02\/five-nights-at-freddys-chris-columbus-harry-potter-blumhouse-1202286349\/\">Deadline<\/a> is reporting that Chris Columbus will be writing, directing and producing the video game adaptation for Blumhouse Productions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mr. Columbus, are you ready for Freddy? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FiveNightsatFreddys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FiveNightsatFreddys<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4F7QEnw16x\">pic.twitter.com\/4F7QEnw16x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Blumhouse (@blumhouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blumhouse\/status\/963095697791873025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-42889\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Five-Nights-At-Freddys-Chris-Columbus-254x339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"339\" \/>In case you&#8217;ve been living under a rock for the last four years,\u00a0<strong>Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s\u00a0<\/strong>is a 2014 indie video game created by Scott Cawthon which place the player in the Chuck E. Cheese-esque Freddy Fazbear&#8217;s Pizza as a night watchmen. Unfortunately for the player, the animatronic animals come to life at night and have developed a taste for killing. The player has to avoid the robots in order to survive until morning.<\/p>\n<p>The game was a smash success, spawning five sequels and a ton of tie-in merchandise such\u00a0 as T-shirts, toys, novelizations, costumes and much more.<\/p>\n<p>While films that Columbus had a hand in have earned over $4.1 billion at the box office, I feel the need to point out that his last film, also a foray into the world of video games, was 2015&#8217;s <strong>Pixels<\/strong>, which was lambasted by the critics and disappointed at the box office. However, if he keeps Adam Sandler far, far away from this film, he should be okay.<\/p>\n<p>The project was originally at Warner Brothers\/New Line with\u00a0<strong>Poltergeist&#8217;s<\/strong> Gil Kenan set to direct.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The man responsible for GREMLINS and HOME ALONE will be the one to bring FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY&#8217;S to the big screen.\n<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/12\/chris-columbus-to-write-direct-and-produce-five-nights-at-freddys-film\/\" title=\"Chris Columbus To Write, Direct And Produce FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY&#8217;S Film\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":42887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[9685,757,9684,6221,812,1889,6833,1339,7817,5119,175],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-blumhouse-productions","9":"tag-chris-columbus","10":"tag-five-nights-at-freddys","11":"tag-gil-kenan","12":"tag-harry-potter","13":"tag-home-alone","14":"tag-mrs-doubtfire","15":"tag-new-line","16":"tag-pixels","17":"tag-poltergeist","18":"tag-warner-brothers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42886"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=42886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}