We can now confirm that two classic video games will be getting movie adaptations. Up first, is the Five Nights At Freddy’s movie. After original director Chris Columbus elected to step away from the project, The Hollywood Reporter is now saying that Emma Tammi will be directing the film.
Blumhouse Productions has already reached out to Jim Henson’s Creature Shop to help bring the franchise to the big screen. And, in a tweet sent out on the evening of October 5th, Blumhouse founder Jason Blum confirmed that production on the movie will begin this coming February.
“Either the right movie gets made or no movie gets made,” Blum said during a recent interview.
That wasn’t the only exciting piece of video game movie news. During a different interview with Collider, the directing duo of Josh Gordon and Will Speck announced that they are working on a musical movie adaptation of Oregon Trail.
The idea for a musical adaptation of the game came from the two directors’ upcoming film Lyle Lyle Crocodile, which happens to be an adaptation of the children’s story of the same name. The film’s songwriters, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, helped inspire this ambitious project.
“Pasek and Paul have quote been very obsessed with Oregon Trail,” Speck said. “We were talking about what we could cook up next… They mentioned that, and we now have the rights to it, and we’re putting it together alongside them and some other exciting people.”
(All information was provided by Collider, Google [1,2], IGN, and Wikipedia [1,2])
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