Five Nights at Freddy's horror video game has recently been acquired by Warner Brothers to have a movie adaptation.
With the stigma surrounding the fate of many video games-made-into-films in the box office, many are just not convinced that this survival horror game will have an easy way to mainstream viewers albeit its success in the video game industry.
Or worse, it might end up like its fellow game-based adapted movies "Halo" and "The Sims" that have been cancelled for good.
There were also supposedly video games being produced for Hollywood films but it has been so long since they made news of progress such as "Uncharted", "Assassin's Creed", and Metal Gear Solid".
The most successful video game morphed into movie was "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" which was apparently the best-reviewed among the species.
However, the creator Scott Cawthon might think otherwise as he tells The Hollywood Reporter saying, "The story really lends itself to being a movie, and it taps into a largely unexplored niche of horror that a lot of people will be able to relate to."
He is confident that the survival point-and-click horror game series which has produced three video games since its release in August 2014 that are all set in the fictional Freddy Fazbear's pizza restaurant has plot ideal for a movie adaptation. Scott Games Website has recently announced that a part four of the game is currently being developed.
The game setting contains minimalistic design which has received praises for being simplistic yet embodies ideal environment and atmosphere for such genre.
Design and Trend also offered tips on how to make the horror game a good movie, commenting that the hooks of the game remain while introducing other interesting and mysterious new ideas that would set the game apart from the movie.
As the movie is still in the fetus era, no reports about the directors, actors, and writers have been publicized yet.
The only report as of date is that Roy Lee who took part in the production of "The Grudge" and "The Ring" will be producing the movie with Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg of KatzSmith Productions.
While many are still in doubt whether Five Nights at Freddy's is going to be taken seriously in Hollywood, the part four of the game is currently in the works, while simultaneously, the developer Scott Cawthon teaming up with the producer of "The Grudge" is making avid fans of the game thrilled anticipating its movie release and fate in the box office.
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