Spoilers beneath for anybody who hasn’t but watched 5 Nights at Freddy’s in theaters or with a Peacock subscription, so be warned!
Regardless of any and all damaging takes from critics, 5 Nights at Freddy’s soared out of the gate with the greatest horror field workplace debut of 2023, with thousands and thousands of franchise fanatics turning up in droves alongside viewers unfamiliar with the video games. (All this, regardless of additionally debuting the identical day on Peacock.) The movie’s prompt success makes Common and Blumhouse’s sequel plans all of the extra seemingly, giving the inventive crew an opportunity to observe up on the tip credit teaser and extra. CinemaBlend spoke with director and co-writer Emma Tammi forward of the horror adaptation’s premiere, and she or he tiptoed round what the ultimate message meant, whereas additionally addressing her excessive hopes for an additional likelihood to inform tales inside this universe.
What FNAF’s Director Informed Us About The Finish Credit Message
Viewers members who caught round previous the mid-credits teaser with Balloon Boy and CoryxKenshin’s cab driver have been handled to a well-recognized tune from the video video games on the alternative finish of the bop-spectrum from The Dwelling Tombstone’s theme: FNAF 2’s music field. Which was adopted by a creepy and easy-to-miss digital voice spelling out a message that had FNAF fanatics bouncing of their seats: “Come discover me.”
With out but figuring out what the way forward for the franchise could be, Emma Tammi couldn’t immediately handle what the ultimate message meant, however implied that the clues are there for 5 Nights familiars to place collectively. Right here’s how she put it:
Oh, that I will not converse to. [Laughs.] We needed to tease one thing for the tip. And if , . I will depart it at that.
Whereas the movie clearly already arrange Balloon Boy as a possible antagonist for a live-action 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2, the truth that the character was used solely for comedic pops made the teensy character much less more likely to function because the overarching menace. (I am positively hoping for some heady backstory for that character in a follow-up function, whatever the narrative function he performs.) However it positively makes contextual sense for “Come Discover Me” to observe the cab-set capper, which we’ll get into beneath.
Who The “Come Discover Me” Message Was Possible Referring To
Although the robotic voice itself is not particular to this recreation reference, no less than so far as my very own data is worried, the music field definitely is. That melody is synonymous with the second recreation’s central villain, the Puppet (also called the Marionette). Which might suggest that the creepy wanting creation will fill in because the movie sequel’s not-so-big dangerous, albeit with some most likely variations from how that story was specified by the supply materials.
With out going too far into recreation spoilers right here, for many who have not performed, the Puppet’s backstory is kind of a tragic one, and ties into William Afton’s very first sufferer, in addition to the precise founding father of the Fazbear Leisure model. The primary film made no point out of stated founder Henry Emily, with solely Matthew Lillard’s Afton famous because the particular person behind the restaurant. So if we apply that to what befell in Emma Tammi’s first movie, which was co-written by recreation developer Scott Cawthon and Seth Cuddeback, it is attainable that the “Come discover me” message was to Mike from his long-missing, long-dead brother Garrett, whose spirit could also be possessing the as-yet-unseen Puppet animatronic. In any other case, it isn’t fairly clear what occurred to that li’l dude.
5 Nights At Freddy’s Director On The Ending And Sequel Hopes
Even earlier than the surprises peppered via the credit, 5 Nights at Freddy‘s had already delivered an sudden ending that seemingly killed off Lillard’s William Afton, who did certainly spend a long time locked contained in the Springtrap go well with in a storage room inside the recreation lore. And that was after he stabbed his personal daughter Vanessa, which was itself a remix of a recreation twist tied to Afton’s offspring.
I requested Emma Tammi about their method to ending the primary FNAF film in such a giant approach, and the way a lot of these decisions have been guided by the unstated notion that this could be a one-and-done undertaking. This is what she instructed me:
Yeah, I imply, we have been actually centered on this primary one and simply wanting to place all of our efforts and focus into this, in order that it may stand by itself even when no sequels have been ever made. After all, figuring out what a giant world the franchise is, it was at all times the hope at the back of everybody’s thoughts that we would have the ability to maintain making these movies and success. However yeah, every part hangs on this primary one, so fingers crossed.
The film positively stored Mike and Abby open as potential returning characters, with Vanessa additionally nonetheless alive regardless of her stab wounds. (Although severely, Mike ought to drop her as a pal ASAP, even when she’s again within the subsequent one.) And even William Afton addressed the truth that he at all times comes again, regardless of that messaging being a little bit unclear when it comes to his personal historical past. So despite the fact that this primary chapter featured a starting, center, and finish, it is nonetheless 100% attainable to proceed bringing the video games’ tales to life in future films.
To that finish, I requested Emma Tammi about what different FNAF character she could be focused on bringing to life sooner or later, however even that form of hypothesis wasn’t attainable, as she implied to talk to these concepts could be to spoil the early plans in place for the franchise’s future. She stated:
I am not going to get particular about that, as a result of that might get into harmful spoiler territory. Nonetheless, what I’ll say is I am so excited to maintain creating extra with Jim Henson’s Creature Store, and the prospect of beginning the design and construct part on a complete further crew of characters is one thing that has me, simply speaking to you proper now, smiling from ear to ear. So I am actually, actually hopeful that we get to do this.
Tammi did title Balloon Boy as a attainable favourite creation from the Jim Henson’s Creature Store crew, so I feel we are able to depend on seeing that little bugger once more irrespective of the place his cab journey took him.
5 Nights at Freddy’s is at present raking within the cash in theaters, and can also be out there to stream amongst Peacock’s finest horror films.
