Exclusive: Five Nights At Freddy's, director Emma Tammi explains the balance between nailing the atmosphere and fleshing out the new characters' arcs.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Five Nights At Freddy's director Emma Tammi discusses the balance between capturing the game's atmosphere while creating fully fleshed-out arcs for the new protagonists. Five Nights At Freddy's follows Mike Schmidt, who, out of desperation, agrees to take the night shift guard duty of the abandoned Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.
During an interview with Screen Rant at New York City Comic Con for Five Nights At Freddy's, Tammi discussed fleshing out the original story. She assured fans that the creepy atmosphere the game creates is a major piece of the movie, but that the movie needed to move beyond that. Tammi explained how, for the movie to work, they needed to flesh out the two lead characters beyond what is in the original game.
Emma Tammi: Yeah, I mean, the DNA of the game is so important in that adaptation. We knew we needed to land the scares, and really recreate the atmosphere that FNAF so effectively creates in the game which is this creepy factor that is really rich, and always unsettling. But it's hard to watch a full feature-length film without real characters to hang your hat on and fully dimensional people with arcs, so we knew that was equally important to achieve as well.
Honoring The Five Nights At Freddy's While Moving Beyond It The original Five Nights At Freddy's game captured audiences with its tension-filled narrative and terrifying jump scares, putting the player at the heart of the terror. The movie takes a different approach to portraying this, instead fleshing out the personal life of the security guard at the heart of the game. Mike Schmidt in the movie is struggling with trauma from his past and raising his younger sister on his own.
The atmosphere of Five Nights At Freddy's is integral to the story. The abandoned pizzeria brings an eerie creepiness that lends itself to the iconic jump scares, but it also shows a loss of innocence because of what the place used to represent. The movie needs to lean into this, but the atmosphere alone can't be the central idea of the story.
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