Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 gets a promising update from star who says the sequel will be "bigger" and "scarier" than the first

Oct. 7, 2024

“It’s much bigger, the stakes are higher”

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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 will start filming at the end of October, but before cameras have even started rolling, star Josh Hutcherson has already promised that the sequel will be bigger and even scarier than the first installment.

“It’s much bigger, the stakes are higher,” said Hutcherson in an interview withEsquire. “There’s more animatronics being brought in, different animatronics being brought in, and the world just opens up in a big way. I think the fans are gonna flip for it. It’s gonna be a lot of fun with the source. It’s gonna be scarier, too, actually.”

The world in which the star is talking about is of course the Five Nights at Freddy’s universe based on the widely popular video game franchise of the same name. The firstFive Nights at Freddy’smovie is based on the lore of the first game, and from what we have seen so far, it looks like Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 will follow the same type of storyline as the second game, also named Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.

But, as we know from the first movie, what we see on screen isn’t exactly like what plays out in the games. Hutcherson added later in the interview that one goal for him going into this project was to expand the world of the games, but still make the characters stay “grounded.” The star continued: “That’s something that I really think that we all fought for in the first film, because this world that was created in Five Nights at Freddy’s, it’s so out there. It’s so over-the-top and wacky.”

At this point, we know that Hutcherson will reprise his role in the upcoming movie and that Emma Tammi is back in the directing chair. However, a wider cast list is yet to be revealed.

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