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Poltergeist helmer Gil Kenan to direct Five Nights at Freddy’s movie

July 29, 2015 by Gary Collinson

Back in April, Warner Bros. announced that it had acquired the movie rights to the video game franchise Five Nights at Freddy’s, and now Deadline is reporting that the studio has found its director.

According to the site, Gil Kenan (Monster House, Poltergeist) has signed on to direct the film, as well as writing the script with Tyler Burton Smith, whose previous credits include the video games Prototype 2 and Sleeping Dogs.

Five Nights at Freddy’s “takes place in Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, a darker version of Chuck-E-Cheese, where an animatronic animal band performs kiddy songs by day, and goes on murderous rampages by night. The goal of the game is survive a night locked inside, knowing that a furry death machine might jump out of the dark at any moment.”

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About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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