Production nightmare has befallen the tape in charge of bringing animatronic horror tales to the big screen.

We live in an age of video game adaptations to cinema and television, with hits such as Sonic 2: The Movie, which grossed over 330 million dollars at the box office globally and has plans for a sequel. On television, the popularity of Paramount+'s Halo series has helped the platform gain millions of subscribers, while Arcane, Netflix's League of Legends series, has swept the coveted Annie Awards.

Everything seems to point to now being the ideal moment to bring the most successful video game sagas to the big screen, as was recognized in Hollywood more than 7 years ago with regard to the famous video game serial Five Nights at Freddy's. However, as time passes, production changes hands and deadlines extend.

Blumhouse Productions, an American film and television company known for low-budget horror films such as The Purge and Get Out, took up production of the project in 2018. However, despite a storyline that proved to be quite a pain, the company has yet to find the recipe for bringing the horrific animatronics to the big screen.

Its producers, Jason Blum and Scott Cawthon, developer of the game, revealed some hints about the film's situation in 2020, admitting that they had been forced to eliminate several storylines for the picture, which had a negative influence on its development, delaying your recording. At the time, Blum noted that the movie was still in its early stages, with narrative lines proving especially challenging to plot. They seem to have run into these issues as a result of the large number of tales based on the license and the "various routes" they have gone.

The film's release date was set for spring 2021, but complications arose, and its director, veteran Chris Columbus, left the project at the end of last year, while the creator of the video game saga, Scott Cawthon, continued to reject the drafts of the scripts presented, even after retiring from the industry amid controversy.

Not everything has been bad news, and in March, Blumhouse CEO Jason Blum assured fans of the series that they were "dangerously close" to hearing more about the film. Furthermore, Blum confirmed that the horror film's release date was still set for 2023, which he considered as "very doable." However, months pass, and no word about the long-awaited film arrives, despite the project's issues.

If you like the Five Nights at Freddy's series, remember that Marc Rollan's essay "El Funs" about its inventor, who switched from developing Christian video games to horror, is accessible on 3DJuegos. A work that emerged in 2014 with media importance that no one could have predicted, revolutionizing the horror gaming industry with a basic and unadorned title.