Five Nights At Freddy's adapts the wildly popular horror video fame into a scare-filled movie that follows Mike as he takes on the job of night security guard at the abandoned Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria. While working his night shift and trying to take care of his younger sister, Abby, Mike meets a local police officer who tries to warn him of strange happenings at the shut-down restaurant. Mike's nights get stranger and more dangerous as he learns that all is not as it seems at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria.

Five Nights At Freddy's is directed by Emma Tammi, who also wrote the script with Scott Cawthon, who developed the original game, and Seth Cuddeback from a story by Cawthon, Chris Lee Hill, and Tyler MacIntyre. The movie is produced by Cawthon and Jason Blum. Five Nights At Freddy's features a star-studded cast including Matthew Lillard, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, and Mary Stuart Masterson.

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Screen Rant spoke with director Emma Tammi about her new horror movie, Five Nights At Freddy's. She teased Easter eggs incorporated from the game throughout the movie, including in the production design, and hints at more lore to delve into in a potential sequel. Tammi also raved about Lillard and working with Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

Emma Tammi Talks Five Nights At Freddy's

Screen Rant: I love Five Nights at Freddy's! Matthew Lillard, you brought him back to this genre. And he's phenomenal! What did he bring to the role that wasn't necessarily on the page?

Emma Tammi: Oh, man, so much. Matthew Lillard is an icon, and he stepped into this iconic role with both reverence for what he knew the fanbase would want to see and also a wild imagination for bringing this character to life in a way that has never been seen. That is a combination of the way he moves, the way he speaks. At times ad libbing a line. This was before the strike, just to be clear, that was still allowed. He inhabited the role with such joy and menacing fear. And that's the brilliant combination that he is capable of. That is incredible.

There are tons of Five Nights at Freddy Easter eggs in this film sprinkled throughout, how did you choose what you were going to use for the Easter eggs in this film?

Emma Tammi: It was an ongoing process with all the department heads. I mean, certainly as we were writing it we were thinking of Easter eggs for the fans. Scott Cawthon was a huge source of inspiration and information for all that. But in addition to that with the production designers, we were figuring out what we could add to the set and in every room and with the costume designer figuring out little things that the fans would be able to discover on not just the first view, but maybe the second view, third view. So it was really a fun, collaborative process.

We live in a world of digital effects, but these are practical costumes. These are animatronic practical costumes. You guys worked with Jim Henson Studios to really get the look down of exactly how they look. Can you talk about working with Jim Henson Studios and bringing the characters to life?

Emma Tammi: Yeah, bringing them to life was as important as the casting process in this film. They are part of the cast and the characters that the fans are the most familiar with actually going into this film. Working with Jim Henson's Creature Shop was the biggest honor, the biggest inspiration, and they held such reverence to what the designs needed to be based on something that already existed. And figuring out how to make them come to life in a three-dimensional way that was unique in and of itself and even more exciting than what the fans had ever seen before. I think there's a character and an imperfection to the designs that are so uniquely Henson and so fantastic.

Absolutely, now was there anything about the Five Nights at Freddy's lore, that you weren't able to quite fit into this film, but would like to explore in a sequel?

Emma Tammi: Oh, my gosh, well, the lore is massive. There was no way we were ever going to fit everything into one film, nor was it the intention. So the answer is yes, there's so much to potentially bring into any sequels should we be lucky enough to make them.

About Five Nights At Freddy's

Mike Schmidt, a troubled security guard, accepts a night-time job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, a once-successful but now abandoned family entertainment center, where he discovers its four animatronic mascots – Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy – move and kill anyone that is still there after midnight.

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