Matthew Lillard and Josh Hutcherson sign up for a shift with Five Nights At Freddy’s
We don't know if they'll be playing people or animatronic monsters yet
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A pair of famous dudes are about to get terrorized by rogue animatronic beasts… or maybe they’re going to be putting on some rotted fur and rusty metal skeletons to do some terrorizing as animatronic beasts? Either way, Matthew Lillard and Josh Hutcherson have joined the cast of director Emma Tammi’s big-screen adaptation of the mega-popular Five Nights At Freddy’s video game series, but we don’t know who they’ll be playing. It’s not necessarily a secret, but the Deadline story that broke this news simply says that it’s “not being specified” whether or not the two of them will be people or Freddy Fazbear and his cronies.
The original Five Nights At Freddy’s video games put the player in the role of a security guard at a spooky pizza chain that is just Chuck E. Cheese with a different mascot. When the scary robots at the pizza place get loose and try to kill you, you have to monitor security camera feeds and figure out how to avoid the robots or divert them from wherever you’re hiding. They were originally almost entirely the work of one developer, Scott Cawthon, who is listed as producer and co-writer on this movie despite the fact that he supposedly stepped away from the enormous franchise he created when everyone found out about him donating money to a bunch of MAGA assholes in 2021.
Hutcherson is probably best known for his role in the Hunger Games movie, but he was also the star of Hulu’s brilliant sci-fi comedy series Future Man. Hey, how good was Future Man? Lillard, meanwhile, was recently on NBC’s Good Girls and continues to do the voice of Shaggy after playing him in the live-action Scooby-Doo movies. He’s best known for his brief appearance in the Twin Peaks revival… well, not really, but he was really good in it. Twin Peaks and Future Man: Check ‘em out!
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This is just a ripoff of the Banana Splits movie.
The longest 88 minutes of my life….
Which was a rip off of FnaF using a very cheap and very dead IP to beat it to streaming.
My youngest son went through a Five Nights at Freddy’s phase a couple of years back. Some of the longest months of my life.
My son has also passed through FnaF and all its spin offs , also as a bystander I have seen so many theory/storyline videos that I can tell you that shit is freaking Lord Of The Rings to under 12s , it has that deep a lore .( Which makes Poppy Playtime and Piggy their Wheel of Time and Game of Thrones respectively I guess)
Oh, don’t I know it. So many Youtube videos. My son even has a number of books fully diving into the lore. It is ridiculous. It is just Chucky Cheese plus horror for goodness sake.Fortunately for my sanity, most of those books are gathering dust now as he has moved on to other stuff. I found FF highly annoying. Needless to say, I will not be at the upcoming movie.
“Hey, how good was Future Man?”It was super good!
Reading these comments have been the longest few seconds of my life.
Only kinda related, but if we’re talking about strong performances from these guys, I’d like to throw Lillard’s performance in “The Bridge.” Outstanding stuff.
“He’s best known for…” Matthew Lillard… Maybe the author, considering they write for the f’ing AV Club, should watch SLC Punk…
Nah. He’s Shaggy, now and forever. (I dare say an even better animated one than Kasem. Not even playing.)
I love me some Matthew Lillard but I don’t want any of my money going to the Five Nights at Freddy’s dickbag.
When did Matthew Lillard* become Tom Cavanagh?( *current animated voice of Shaggy )
How is this STILL in development??
Matthew Lillard was also the guy that George Clooney’s wife was having an affair with in The Descendants. Not even he could believe that!