Any hesitation Jason Blum or Universal execs may have had before unleashing the live-action Five Nights at Freddy’s on theatergoers (and streamers with Peacock subscriptions) presumably flew out the window whenever the video game adaptation started breaking box office records, as it’s currently Blumhouse’s biggest global release to date. So why hasn’t there been any confirmed sequel news? The motivations are still unclear, but we took the question to FNAF’s overarching villain William Afton, or at least his A+ portrayer Matthew Lillard, to get his thoughts.
With the SAG-AFTRA strike keeping Lillard from freely talking about Five Nights at Freddy’s around its pre-Halloween release, the Scream vet talked to CinemaBlend’s Philip Sledge about playing a fan-favorite villain and how it felt working with the animatronic puppetry crafted by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. And while the actor easily could have played things coyly or completely deflected any questions about the status of Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, he sparked quite a bit of hope with his answer:
