5 Nights At Freddy’s Star Josh Hutcherson Teases A Scarier Sequel

Final yr, the movie adaptation of 5 Nights At Freddy’s was an surprising hit on the field workplace, and a sequel was confirmed earlier this yr. Josh Hutcherson will reprise his function from the primary movie as Mike Schmidt, an evening guard at a restaurant haunted by the souls of murdered youngsters whose spirits reside in disturbing animatronic creations. In response to Hutcherson, the sequel isn’t solely going to introduce extra animatronics, it is going to even be scarier than the unique.

“It is gonna be scarier,” Hutcherson informed Esquire in a brand new interview. “It is a lot greater; the stakes are larger… There’s extra animatronics being introduced in, totally different animatronics being introduced in, and the world simply opens up in an enormous means.”

The movie will reportedly be primarily based on the 5 Nights At Freddy’s 2 online game, which launched the Puppet and Balloon Boy animatronics alongside the returning creatures Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Cunning. Hutcherson did not disclose any plot particulars, however he did point out that it’ll broaden the world.

“We’re discovering the stability proper now of constructing this world and increasing it in a very cool means but additionally ensuring the characters keep actually grounded,” mentioned Hutcherson. “That is one thing that I actually suppose that all of us fought for within the first movie, as a result of this world that was created in 5 Nights at Freddy’s, it is so out-there. It is so over-the-top and wacky, in a means, that to search out the emotional fact of the characters was gonna be what was gonna work.”

To this point, Hutcherson and Matthew Lillard are the one forged members from the primary movie confirmed to return for the sequel. 5 Night time’s At Freddy’s 2 will hit theaters on December 5, 2025.