A film version of hugely-popular horror franchise Five Nights at Freddy’s has been delayed due to controversial creator Scott Cawthon, and the project’s director has now left.
Harry Potter and Home Alone director Chris Colombus was on board to direct the FNAF film adaptation, which was set to begin shooting in spring this year.
But a Collider interview with Jason Blum, boss of production company Blumhouse, has revealed the movie is being held up while Cawthon continues to disagree on a script.
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“We’ve written multiple scripts, and we’ve got where we’re threading a needle, which is doing justice to Five Nights at Freddy’s and making Scott happy,” Blum said. “The only way that we would go about it is giving Scott… I don’t want to do something that Scott doesn’t like.