Jasonic's Favorites: Five Nights at Freddy's
Hello, and good evening, Internet! Freddy may not be the main character of this movie, but the franchise is still one of my favorites and I wanted to do this in anticipation for the upcoming sequel! Released in 2023, Five Nights at Freddy's is the movie adaptation of the ever-popular, ever-memed, ever-theorized indie game franchise that took the world by storm a little over a decade ago in 2014. Many discovered this game through the various popular Let's Players on YouTube (Markiplier, jacksepticeye, PewDePie, and CoryxKenshin to name a few), and the game quickly developed an online following of devoted fans and theorists including MatPat of Game Theory -- not excluding cringe fan artists and fanfic writers. That aside, it was the game that brought its creator, Scott Cawthon, to fame and relevance and thus Warner Bros. quickly jumped at the chance to greenlight a movie adaptation in 2015. After a brief development hell where the project was passed from different companies...