Final 12 months, Blumhouse launched its movie adaptation of the 5 Nights at Freddy’s online game sequence, and like most Blumhouse issues, it made some huge cash. A sequel’s at present locked in for 2025, and main man Josh Hutcherson lately shed some mild on what to anticipate from subsequent 12 months’s followup.

For those who had been somebody who felt the primary film wasn’t in any respect scary, the star advised Esquire that 5 Nights 2 will do significantly better in that regard. Hand in hand with that, he stated the movie would “have a number of enjoyable” with its “wacky, over-the-top”  supply materials with out dropping the primary film’s down-to-earth nature. That method was one thing they fought for final time, and Hutcherson hopes there’ll be a superb stability between “constructing this world and increasing it in a very cool means but additionally ensuring the characters keep actually grounded.”

Every 5 Nights at Freddy’s sport options new animatronics to jumpscare the hell out of gamers, and that’ll even be true for the upcoming film. Hutcherson didn’t disclose which of them could be introduced over, however he stated there’d be extra animatronics this time round, and emphasised “totally different” ones would seem as properly. (Starting with 5 Nights 2, some animatronics have had alternate variations seem all through the sequel and spinoff video games.) And extra animatronics means “a lot greater, larger stakes” than earlier than. “The world simply opens up in a giant means,” he continued, “I believe the followers are gonna flip for it.”

Earlier than the primary 5 Nights motion pictures got here out, Blumhouse stated it had each intention of constructing this a long-term sequence. Hutcherson’s character Mike seems all through the sequels, so may he be a long-term protagonist for the movies? The actor isn’t positive but, however he assured that he likes taking part in the character and thinks there are “countless prospects” to discover. “I like working on this world, and our director Emma Tammi is phenomenal. […] This might have a really doubtlessly long term and it could possibly be a number of enjoyable, however at this level we’re specializing in the second film. We’ll see what comes after that.”

5 Nights at Freddy’s 2 involves theaters on December 5, 2025. Hutcherson’s full Esquire interview will be learn right here.

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