box office hit<\/a> this weekend. The film\u2019s ending \u2014\u00a0complete with a mid-credits scene, an end-credits scene and a handful of cliffhangers \u2014 is already encouraging plenty of debate and analysis online.<\/p>\n\n\tEmma Tammi, who directed both films in the series, spoke with Variety about the series\u2019 next steps. During this film\u2019s mid-credits scene, Springtrap \u2014\u00a0the antagonistic animatronic from the game \u201cFive Nights at Freddy\u2019s 3\u201d \u2014\u00a0is seen booting up. It\u2019s implied that the spirit of William Afton (Matthew Lillard), the co-founder of Freddy Fazbear\u2019s Pizza, now controls the device.<\/p>\n
\n\tTammi said that she and screenwriter Scott Cawthon (who also created the games) planned to bring the villain back for a third movie, after he makes a cameo in the visions of his daughter Vanessa Shelly (Elizabeth Lail) in \u201cFive Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe end Movie One with him being dragged off, and the idea was always that he would be teed up at the end of Movie Two for a third film, should we be fortunate enough to make one,\u201d Tammi said. \u201cThat really links to where Movie Three and Game Three enter the scene. We get these great glimpses of William Afton throughout this film that are really more through the lens of Vanessa and her memories and PTSD from her relationship with him. To then get a glimpse towards the end of what he is now becoming and has become, when the assumption is, at least from our characters within the film, that he\u2019s dead \u2026 it\u2019s just such a great way to bring it back to Afton.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tYet Springtrap wasn\u2019t the final moment in the film. Instead, we hear grieving father Henry Emily (Skeet Ulrich) leave a message for Mike (Josh Hutcherson) in which he reveals he was business partners with William at Freddy Fazbear\u2019s Pizza, and warns him to avoid the Marionette, which has been taken over by his dead daughter\u2019s soul.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThat was inspired by some of the tape recordings from the game,\u201d Tammi said. \u201cIt was a mishmash also of picking up the Marionette at the end, as it intersects with Henry, and certainly as he\u2019s reaching out to Mike. This film is really an introduction to Henry, without going too deep into his backstory. That recording felt like the perfect tease to nod our hat to the fact that we would be going deeper with him in a third film.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tAlso exciting is the fact that Ulrich and Lillard might be onscreen together if the third installment is made. Notably, the pair made a splash in 1996\u2019s \u201cScream,\u201d where they played the deadly duo posing as Ghostface.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cOnce [Ulrich\u2019s] name was brought up for the first time, it just clicked so hard, and we all got so excited about it,\u201d Tammi said. \u201cI think every crew member who started catching wind that this was something that was going to happen had such an overwhelmingly excited response. It was an across-the-board validation for how cool this was going to be, and how well-received that reunion was going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tUltimately, despite the film\u2019s emphasis on killer robots and a dense backstory, Tammi is proud to bring audiences human stories that fans can love as well.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI think our human characters are as important as our animatronic characters, and as important as the lore,\u201d she said. \u201cFor me, they all hold equal weight. I would absolutely want to continue that moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT:\u00a0This post contains spoilers from \u201cFive Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2,\u201d now playing in theaters. Freddy Fazbear and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,20120,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-336439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-five-nights-at-freddys","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}