One of the biggest box office hits of 2023, and currently the highest global earner within the Blumhouse Productions library, Emma Tammi’s Five Nights at Freddy’s finally brought the beloved frights from Scott Cawthon’s video game series into live-action for the first time. While critics were pretty ruthless with their views, the massive fanbase undercut any such negativity by turning out in droves, with immediate calls for a sequel (or more). So will Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 be joining the ranks of other upcoming horror movies?
Early on in the rumor mill, the belief was that Universal and Blumhouse had sights on spinning FNAF into a trilogy of films, per franchise standards. But with the film’s theatrical and streaming release happening in the midst of the since-concluded SAG-AFTRA strike, and only a month after the WGA strike ended, it became unclear if those reported plans were in jeopardy, or whether audiences could anticipate Freddy Fazbear’s house of horrors as a yearly Halloween arrival. So let’s dig into where things currently stand for the sequel.
