Five Nights At Freddy's Adaptation

I'd prefer live action.

Ditto. I'd like to explore Horror-Animation, but I don't think Freddy's is the place to explore that.

I had a idea for the plot where it's similar to the first game (bodyguard vs. animatronic mascots) but incorporates features from the 2nd and 3rd game (maybe leave out Springtrap), with original plot lines added in.

What I thought is that the pizza sauce/meat in the pizzeria is made from teenage victims who visit the pizzeria at night.

The owner is actually the film's Purple Bigger Bad who killed innocent kids. The night guard (played by the guy who played Neville in Harry Potter) and his Final Girl girlfriend (played by a cute chick) will have to work together with some stupid victims in order to find out how to get out and stop the monsters.

I'd have Freddy, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, Balloon Boy, Golden Freddy and The Puppet as the monsters.

And, just to be safe, I'd have Karen Gillan play as one of the victims. Fanservice for her is recommended.

And finally, the film will end on a happy (yet horribly gruesome for the Bigger Bad) ending, without the need for sequel hooks, like the 2014 Godzilla film.

PHEW!! What. A. Mouthful.

To be totally honest, that sounds almost In Name Only.

It IS In Name Only. The victims were all children and the story implies they were stuffed in suits. There's no room for teenaged blood pizza sauce or a romance plot of any kind. Not that the movie being In Name Only is necessarily a bad thing, though I haven't seen any of the new wave of board game adaptations like Battleship yet, so I can't speak to quality.

Well, let me tell you one thing about the Battleship film.

IT'S FUCKING SHIT.

I have heard so but I think for once I'd like to form my own opinion instead of letting the internet spoon feed it to me.

Sorry. It was actually my honest opinion. But then again, so has the Internet =V

And don't expect to see a sequel, after seeing that Sequel Hook post-credits.

FUCK YOU DIRECTOR WHO IS CLEARLY NOT MICHEAL BA- (gets stabbed for allcaps)

Not all videogames should be adapted just because they have some semblance of a plot. Same with Zelda that people keep crying for. Or Bioshock that people begged for. Because watching a guy collect diary snippets would work so well on the big screen.

You don't have to adapt a game like Bioshock or Legend of Zelda wholecloth. Bioshock 1 can't be adapted as well, mostly due to its twist being well known and easy to spoil, but with Bioshock Infinite's ending, a story set with "a city, a girl, and a lighthouse" could be done. As for Legend of Zelda, that can easily be adapted as a Fantasy setting.

Most video game movies are loose adaptations anyway. As long as there's dungeon exploration and a few iconic items, I think one could pull off a spiritual adaptation of Legend of Zelda without too much difficulty.

Not that you'd make any friends in that fanbase, there's no such thing as friends in the Zelda fanbase. They're as bad as Star Wars fans if not worse.

When are there friends in any fanbase?

How can a FNAF film actually "work"?

edited 12th May '15 6:44:25 AM by Soble

I would accept it (even though I never played the game) if they done it as a parody, or like in a Don Bluth style I saw on Deviantart. (I know it's not going to be animated, but it looks like there was more thought into it than a generic live-action flick.)

As much as I dislike the genre, I feel FNAF would work best as a Found Footage Films. Would probably need to be tweaked a tad, but that's about the only way I can think of it doing well.

Clarification: Aside from Cloverfield, The Fourth Kind, and Marble Hornets, I dislike the genre as a whole and feel some films within it would have been much better as a standard film.

edited 13th May '15 9:03:36 AM by GethKnight

Know who I think could do a good job with the movie if he wasn't blacklisted from Hopywoodoo? Paul Verhoeven.

People are still blacklisted in Hollywood? I thought that was a Red Scare thing. What'd he do?

Showgirls. Which I've always thought turned out the way it did on purpose.

edited 13th May '15 10:10:26 PM by ElkhornTheDowntrodden

The director has been chosen and production has apparently started, the most interesting bit is that they're going with practical effects (i.e. actual animatronics) and that they're going to be made by none other than the Henson Creature Shop (who among other things have got that Where The Wild Things Are live-action on their resume).

Also in terms of whether or not they're going with canon lore or making up an original story, the answer was apparently pretty much "yes, but also, yes".

Oh wow, those Wild Things suits were amazing.

Intriguing, so far it's looking pretty good....

Adapting a video game where the very point is to sit on your ass for an entire night and wait for psycho robots to attack him, with little else to do than check camera and close doors? Yeah, I'm not buying it either...

Technically, it doesn't actually have to keep to that strict of a formula since the game is more mechanic heavy rather than story or lore heavy (depsite what everyone will tell you because, damn it, the game really tells you jack shit and you have to infer a bunch of crap).

It could easily work as a Paranormal Slasher Flick. I kind of think that's the easiest way to take this considering 'Found Footage' is cliche and over done and the games lend themselves better to a Slasher based on their Kill Screens.

Knowing that the Henson company has done some great puppeting, I have a feeling they are the right choice to build the animatronics. Who wants to bed one of them will be doing the signature 'muppet walk' in the movie?

Freddy's jaw...?

Is that even real?