Josh Hutcherson Teases a Bigger, Scarier Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

Last year, Blumhouse released its movie adaptation of the Five Nights astatine Freddy’s video crippled series, and similar astir Blumhouse things, it made a lot of money. A sequel’s presently locked successful for 2025, and starring antheral Josh Hutcherson precocious shed immoderate airy connected what to expect from adjacent year’s followup.

If you were idiosyncratic who felt the archetypal movie wasn’t astatine each scary, the prima told Esquire that Five Nights 2 will bash overmuch amended successful that regard. Hand successful manus with that, helium said the movie would “have a batch of fun” with its “wacky, over-the-top”  root worldly without losing the archetypal movie’s down-to-earth nature. That attack was thing they fought for past time, and Hutcherson hopes there’ll beryllium a bully equilibrium betwixt “building this satellite and expanding it successful a truly chill mode but besides making definite the characters enactment truly grounded.”

Each Five Nights astatine Freddy’s game features caller animatronics to jumpscare the hellhole retired of players, and that’ll besides beryllium existent for the upcoming movie. Hutcherson didn’t disclose which ones would beryllium brought over, but helium said there’d beryllium much animatronics this clip around, and emphasized “different” ones would look arsenic well. (Beginning with Five Nights 2, immoderate animatronics person had alternate versions look passim the sequel and spinoff games.) And much animatronics means “much bigger, higher stakes” than before. “The satellite conscionable opens up successful a large way,” helium continued, “I deliberation the fans are gonna flip for it.”

Before the first Five Nights movies came out, Blumhouse said it had each volition of making this a semipermanent series. Hutcherson’s quality Mike appears passim the sequels, so could helium beryllium a semipermanent protagonist for the films? The histrion isn’t definite yet, but helium assured that helium likes playing the quality and thinks determination are “endless possibilities” to explore. “I emotion moving successful this world, and our manager Emma Tammi is phenomenal. […] This could person a precise perchance agelong tally and it could beryllium a batch of fun, but astatine this constituent we’re focusing connected the 2nd movie. We’ll spot what comes aft that.”

Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 2 comes to theaters connected December 5, 2025. Hutcherson’s afloat Esquire interrogation tin beryllium work here.

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