{"id":78144,"date":"2015-07-29T17:45:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=78144"},"modified":"2015-07-29T17:45:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T16:45:14","slug":"five-nights-at-freddys-movie-finds-a-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/five-nights-at-freddys-movie-finds-a-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Nights At Freddy&#8217;s movie finds a director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/five-nights-at-freddys.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/five-nights-at-freddys.jpg\" alt=\"five nights at freddys\" width=\"616\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/five-nights-at-freddys.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/five-nights-at-freddys-600x339.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/five-nights-at-freddys-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a>It wasn&#x2019;t a surprise when the hugely successful video game\/jump-scare machine <strong><em>Five Nights At Freddy&#x2019;s<\/em><\/strong> was optioned for a movie, and it&#x2019;s now moving forward at speed at Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2015\/07\/five-nights-at-freddys-gil-kenan-warner-bros-1201486628\/\">Deadline<\/a> reports that <strong><em>Poltergeist, City Of Ember<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Monster House<\/em><\/strong> director Gil Kenan has signed on to work on the script with Tyler Burton Smith, and he&#x2019;ll step behind the camera once it&#x2019;s ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Scott Cawthorn, <strong><em>Five Nights At Freddy&#x2019;s<\/em><\/strong> takes place &#x201C;in a Chuck-E-Cheese-like eatery, where an animatronic animal that is part of the house band becomes a murderer at night. Players who&#x2019;ve been locked inside try to survive the rampaging murder machine and his furry cohorts.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p>As remakes go, the <strong><em>Poltergeist<\/em><\/strong> redo was doggedly competent, and we&#x2019;ve got a lot of love for <strong><em>Monster House<\/em><\/strong>. Hopefully this can lean more towards the latter than the former.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Monster-House-Blu-ray-Region-Free\/dp\/B003P9WPDI\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1438175967&sr=8-2&keywords=monster+house&tag=scifinowmag-21\">buy <em>Monster House<\/em> on Blu-ray for &#xA3;7.11 at Amazon.co.uk<\/a>. Keep up with the latest horror news with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/3735\/s\/scifinow-issue-109\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&utm_medium=cover&utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poltergeist director steps in to direct video game movie Five Nights At Freddy&#8217;s <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":78146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[4423,797],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/five-nights-at-freddys.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}