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Read the last "If ___ Was a Movie"

Also, this series isn't JUST about wondering "What if ____" was a movie, it's also putting my personal spin on things from a cinematic perspective. For example, there was one on Death Note. Death Note is already adapted into several movies. But the point is to put my own spin on the idea of a Death Note movie.

It would be preferred if you play the games of Five Nights at Freddy's - or at least understood them from YouTube videos. If you don't want to buy them, just look up videos on the game like MattPat, Markiplier, etc. If you have prior knowledge on the games, you're good to go.

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Okay, okay I know "Five Nights at Freddy's is already getting a movie". That's not exactly the point of this series. I did ones on Borrasca and I Dared My Best Friend to Ruin My Life and they have confirmed projects in the works. Daughter's Drawings has confirmed progress trying to be made already. The point of this series is to pretend I - personally - was working on a movie of the original content, like what my version would look like. To be honest though, the Five Nights at Freddy's movie's existence is debatable at this point. It's been 6 years since they started working on that (more on that later). Hell, I went off topic. This paragraph is supposed to be about the progress or if there are any signs this may already be in the works or anything we know about it.

Okay, this is gonna be one long hell of an episode so strap in.

What is "Five Nights at Freddy's"?

I'm pretty sure this game needs little to no explanation.

It's an indie game where you take the role, as a guy named Mike Schmidt, as a night time security guard at a Chuck E. Cheese type pizzeria/arcade. The robotic animal mascots there render you as an endoskeleton and try to forcefully stuff you into a suit - which will kill you due to the gears/crossbeams/wires etc inside the suit. You have to shut electronically moving doors as the animatronics try to wander into your office though you have limited power. You start with 100% power and that drops as you keep doors closed, turn on lights, and watch the animatronics on a CCTV system monitor. As you do this, you listen to an employee on the phone giving you instructions. Not only are there creepy aspects like the fact that an animatronic, in the past, bit off a piece of someone's brain, and the phone guy telling you the carpets have been replaced and everything has been bleached, but there's also sinister stuff going on behind the scenes. A mysterious man uses a costume to lure kids into the back room and he kills them and stuffs their bodies into the animatronics. The animatronics get possessed by their spirits. So you, the night guard, are being hunted by these animatronics that are possessed and being haunted by posters on the walls changing and a golden version of Freddy as a ghost.

That's just the first game alone. I don't want to explain anything about the second game, third game, fourth game, the parody-style RPG game (FNAF World), the other 2 parody style RPGs (FNAF 57 and 58), the fifth game in the main story (Sister Location), the sixth game in the main story, the novel series consisting of 3 books, the 3 coloring pages and game guides with Easter eggs sprinkled through, the 5 new novel FNAF story collections coming out, 1 comic book, the fun free game boss fight (Ultimate Custom Night), the VR game, the AR game, the updates on the AR game like winter updates and Halloween updates like Curse of Dreadbear, and the upcoming game (Into Madness). Yeah I'm just hoping you have prior knowledge of these games - at least the first four anyway.

Why I love it and why it should be a film

It hasn't really been done before. When I was a little kid, I used to read those Chuck E Cheese CreepyPastas all the time. And I always wanted there to be a movie on a similar concept because kid-friendly animatronics is something that we've never seen. Hell, I even have a memory as a little kid of reading these and going behind the stage to see if there were dead bodies... I was 8, give me a break! And keep in mind that this was before Five Nights at Freddy's. So yeah, we've never seen anything like it on screen.

The struggles with a movie of it

Unlike the other ones in this series, there are a LOT of major struggles. First off, the creator of the games, Scott Cawthon, is stubborn - even with himself. He wants the movie to be perfect, which isn't a bad thing. But he second-guesses every fucking detail of progress made toward the movie. He's written and rewritten and rewritten the screenplay for like 6 years now.

Another struggle is the timeline/story of the games. If you're new to FNAF and it's 10 games and multiple books, you probably don't know how people in this community are. I'll try my best to explain: every fan of the game has a different perception on what the story is because the dipshit creator won't tell us. To be honest, this game survives on people trying to figure out what the fuck is going on with little to no clues, just random shit sprinkled throughout. Some people think one animatronic caused a bite, some people think that bite took place years before a different one. Some people think the two founders have different kids. Some people think these games are mainly dreams. So there would be a lot of salty fans with even more to argue about. And if you don't include what they think the story is or what they want the story to be, they're not gonna like it.

Another struggle, this one being pretty minor, is PG-13 Vs R. If they make it PG-13, more of the fans will be able to watch it because the audience typically consists of younger people. If they make it R, then more graphic things will be allowed. So it's a small battle.

My style

You guys who read this series already know that here's where we put in actors or actresses n shit BEFORE the style.But instead, I'm gonna put part of the style here first.

-This wouldn't be a movie of the books. The books are honestly garbage in my opinion and none of the generic young adult characters from the books will even be present here. Don't @ me on that.

-I'd only have the first 3 or 4 games be cannon. Scott Cawthon has chosen to make the first 3 games cannon in the actual movies (thank God). But I think I'd squeeze the fourth one in there.

My version of the timeline I'd use:

For those of you who have played the games and know all the shit, here'd be my version of the timeline: Dave (not William Afton, he's being named Dave, more on that later) and Fred (not Henry, changed it to Fred) start Fredbear's and Freddy's. Dave kills a kid outside of Freddy's who will be the puppet. The bite of 83 happens at Fredbear's and the FNAF 4 kid is Fred's son - who will become Golden Freddy. Fred leaves town and Fredbear's closes. While it's still open, Dave kills two people in Springlock suits who become Shadow Bonnie and shadow Freddy. And then years later, Fredbear's is closed and Freddy's remodels into FNAF 2. The night guard works there and gets bit in the Bite of '87. And then years later, the first game happens. In this one, Dave lures 5 kids in the back, kills them, stuffs them, etc. After the place closes, he gets spring-trapped (FNAF fans know this term). And then the 3rd game happens and the security guard, this time, is a woman who has been there since FNAF 2 (hence the phantoms of the toy animatronics). So remember Henry's epic speech at the end of the 6th game? I'd have that at the end of the 3rd game's movie - though the script would be altered to match the context. And it would all burn.

-Michael Afton, a character from the games, wouldn't exist. In fact, Dave (replacing William Afton) wouldn't even have family. For those who think Michael Afton is the FNAF 4 kid, that would not be the case for my idea. In my version, the FNAF 4 kid, like I said, is Fred (Henry)'s son.

This time, I feel more comfortable choosing A-list actors/actresses:

Night guard (Mike Schmidt) - Chris Pratt

Fred - a dude who's kind of fat, wears circular glasses, has dark brown hair, a mustache, and just... looks like a manager. I know his names in the games is supposed to be Henry but I'd rename him Fred. After all, it's not like these movies are supposed to be the game's exact story over again. It's like with the Death Note movie. It wasn't just the same story over again, it was something kinda new.

Phone Guy - Scott Cawthon (of course - since he voiced the original phone guy)

Dave - tall, thin man with long brown hair, poorly shaven, almost attractive in a way (no homo). In this one he'd be named Dave. That was his alias in the books but I like the name David Miller better than his actual name - William Afton. And no, he wouldn't be similar to himself in the books - more on that later. And unlike the games, he won't have a British accent in my version.

night guard in the second game (Jeremy Fitzgerald) - some teenager with long orange hair, about 5'7

night guard in 3rd game - Jamie Lee Curtis. Scott Cawthon and Jason Blum were both interested in having her in the actual movie so since she's old, FNAF 3 would be a good place because it takes place like 40 years after the second game - which is the earliest memory that night guard has about the franchise.

FNaF 4 kid - Jackson Robert Scott. The kid is the crying kid who would be named Sam in this one

FNaF 4 kid's brother - Nicholas Hamilton.

Fred in the 3rd game when he burns down the place - the guy who played the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza manager in the Iron Horse Cinema fanmade FNAF commercial.

Now back to my style:

-One thing I've noticed is that the pizzerias in-game get really high tech. In the Iron Horse Cinema one, it's literally an amusement park. In my version, it would be kind of run-down. The first game's pizzeria would look very ghetto. The building would be old and kind of small and sort of dark. The second game's building would be a lot better looking - like Chuck E. Cheese tier. The 3rd game's building would be new but made to look like it was old, dark, and decrepit. Fredbear's Family Diner (4th game) would literally be one pretty large room. It would be well-lit and everything though. The first game's location won't have a checkerboard patterned floor though. The animatronics wouldn't be super high tech either. They'd be like the ones at Chuck E. Cheese's that just move around - their movements being synced with audio in the background.

-As for the Bite of '87, the night guard, Jeremy, would jump in the way of a kid. The animatronic biting would be Withered Foxy. The reason why is because this would give him a reason to be out of order in the first game.

-I'd most certainly change the voices they had. In FNAF VR, you hear Freddy Fazbear and the others' voices. I'd make Freddy's deep instead of the way they made it there.

-Remember the moment in FNAF 3 where the purple guy gets trapped? I'd include that scene in the first movie because then the first movie could function as a complete film by itself. Remember when I said earlier that I would have Dave lure the kids only in the first game? The reason why is so that the kids could be lured by Dave, killed by Dave, get their revenge, and then pass on. In the Happiest Day minigame, I'd represent that by having them float to Heaven on balloons or something.

-When Dave is burning, he'd have flashbacks to the whole thing and shit. The music would be the ending of VR's music - the slow song when you play as the kid who gets lured. Hell, maybe it wouldn't show Dave luring the kids until these flashbacks. That way it could *maybe* be PG-13.

-So they tried making real animatronics at one point during production. They malfunctioned and shit a couple of times. I think real animatronics are not a good idea. An Asian kid could do CGI for that in like minutes with how little effects are needed (I say Asian because most of the people doing special effects are Korean). Either that or costumes. Either way is MUCH cheaper. Sure, it's cool and authentic, but not up to millions of dollars worth when they can use suits for like... what, 300 dollars?

-As for the fourth game's movie ending, I'd use the same music as in-game. And for the 3rd movie's credits, the Good Ending music from that game.

-The animatronics would be something similar to the Fright Dome versions - the ones I photoshopped lightly at the bottom. The toy animatronics would have metal though.

-It would be really cool to have side-stories/spinoffs too. Like a sub-story where the toy animatronics are sold for a lot of money to a family but they escape the family's house and haunt the woods. Or where some people break into Freddy's after hours and are haunted by the animatronics (but not like the Silver Eyes, something closer to the scene in MrCreepyPasta's radio drama of FNAF where the teens break in at night.)

-Also worth noting: Dave wouldn't know he's turning these kids into ghosts

-I'd have a scene in the first game's movie where a kid is drawing and ignoring Freddy, who is standing behind him, until a drop of blood falls onto his piece of paper. Right after that, Freddy's would be scheduled to close soon.

-I don't think I would include this, but a cool plot twist idea would be the older brother who got the FNAF 4 kid bit happened to be the night guard in the first game. Hence seeing the message "It's me" everywhere.

-Maybe - MAYBE... the phone guy could be Dave - the killer. That would be a plot twist and could sort of make sense. Maybe he survives being stuffed into the suit - hence why we never see phone guy's ghost even though he dies like everyone else but he doesn't have a ghost but they do?

Everything we know

Here's everything we know about the FNAF movie:

-Warner Bros had the rights but Scott Cawthon got them back from a lack of control and switched them to BlumHouse. The spot of director was traded from Gil Kenan to Chris Columbus.

-Scott said it's only gonna have the cannonicity of the first 3 games

-Jamie Lee Curtis might be playing a part in it

-They tried using real animatronics several times but they malfunctioned and shit

-Others making the movie tried to do things like have it be about fucking plushes invading Manhattan, some wanted to cram everything into the one movie, it was gonna be about the Silver Eyes at first (Thank God it's not), the screenplay was recently rewritten twice.

-They're working on a lower budget

-Chris Pratt and Harrison Ford were supposed to be in it when Warner Bros had the rights. But then they switched that shit. I'm only guessing here but I'd be willing to bet Chris Pratt was gonna be the night guard and Harrison Ford was gonna be the purple guy

-The Banana Splits movie was using a recycled script of Five Nights at Freddy's that Warner Bros originally was gonna use.

These pictures were production pictures of when Warner Bros had the rights to make it:

BlumHouse pictures:

And there's a very very brief clip of a jumpscare here

[Edit]: Stolen clip from a fanmade trailer was used there

I really need to update the beginning format. Next episode, you'll see improvements on that. This episode was prewritten long ago

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