
Mike Schmidt looks behind in a concerned way in the Five Nights at Freddy's movie "Here, he discovers its four animatronic mascots – Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie the Bunny, Chica the Chicken, and Foxy the Pirate Fox – move and kill anyone that is still there after midnight." So, how will the Five Nights at Freddy's movie tackle the franchise's ever-expanding narrative? Well, it goes right back to the source, with Josh Hutcherson ( The Hunger Games) starring as "Mike Schmidt, a troubled security guard, starts a night-time job at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, a once-successful abandoned family entertainment center. The Five Nights at Freddy's franchise now comprises eight mainline games – with an extremely convoluted, interconnected plot that game theorists have spent years trying to work out – as well as four spin-off games, tons of merchandise, an in-universe book series, and an absolute slew of knock-off titles, such as One Night at Flumpty's.

The game series became an overnight phenomenon when it originally launched in 2014, and has gone on to be a major influence on the indie horror games genre in the years since.
