Five Nights at Freddy’s, the movie has a release date: coming for Halloween

Universal Pictures has announced (via Variety) the release date of the long-awaited film by Five Nights at Freddy’s, an adaptation of Scott Cawthon’s play of the same name.

Five Nights at Freddy’s will be released in theaters (for now in the United States) on October 27, and from the same day it will be available on the Peacock streaming platform. Producing the film will be Blumhouse, a film company known for M3GAN, The Black Phone, and The Invisible Man. The film follows the adventure of a security guard who starts working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. As he spends his first night on the job, he realizes that the shift will not be so easy to get through.

Starring Josh Hutcherson (Ultraman, The Hunger Games), Matthew Lillard (Good Girls, Scream), Elizabeth Lail (You, Mack & Rita), Kat Conner Sterling (We Have A Ghost, 9-1-1), Piper Rubio (Holly & Ivy, Unstable) and Mary Stuart Masterson (Blindspot, Fried Green Tomatoes). Five Nights at Freddy’s is directed by Emma Tammi (The Wind, Blood Moon) and is written by Scott Cawthon, Emma Tammi and Seth Cuddeback.

The film’s iconic animatronic characters will be created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. Five Nights at Freddy’s is produced by Jason Blum and Scott Cawthon. The film’s executive producers are Bea Sequeira, Russell Binder and Christopher H. Warner.

As promised:#FNAF FANS: You asked and we delivered. #FNAFMovie is coming this Halloween on October 27. 2023!!!!!

205 days until the party.

And that is the BIG NEWS.

– Jason Blum (@jason_blum) April 6, 2023