{"id":663661,"date":"2026-06-29T02:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/663661\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T02:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:41:14","slug":"the-five-nights-at-freddys-3-movie-finally-gets-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/663661\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 3’ Movie Finally Gets a Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blumhouse is doing another Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0movie, and enlisted a new writer to craft its script.<\/p>\n

That would be Gary Dauberman, not David Robert Mitchell<\/a> like you might\u2019ve recently heard. Dauberman\u2019s screenwriting career is all about the scares<\/a>, from the recent It\u00a0movies to\u00a0Conjuring\u00a0spinoffs\u00a0The Nun\u00a0and\u00a0Annabelle: Creation and the 2024 adaptation of Salem\u2019s Lot. (He\u2019s got one sole non-horror credit, and that\u2019s the story for October\u2019s Street Fighter\u00a0movie<\/a>.) This\u2019ll be the first Freddy\u2019s\u00a0movie without franchise creator Scott Hawthon on writing duties, who\u00a0co-wrote the first film\u2019s script with Seth Cuddeback and director Emma Tammi, and held sole writing credit for the second.<\/p>\n

As the Hollywood Reporter<\/a> notes, this is actually the first real bit of news on\u00a0Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 3. The second film launched December 2025 and made $240 million worldwide, despite pretty lousy reviews from critics and some fans. While Tammi\u2019s expected back as director for the third time, it\u2019s currently a question mark whether the first two films\u2019 main trio of Josh Hutcherson (Mike), Elizabeth Lail (Vanessa), and Piper Rubio (Abby) will return. Freddy\u2019s 2\u00a0ended with Vanessa\u2019s body taken over by the Marionette animatronic after Mike and Abby distanced themself from her. So the window\u2019s open for the Schmidts to return, or for some new folks to be in the Marionette\u2019s crosshairs.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll have more on\u00a0Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 3 as news emerges.<\/p>\n

[Thanks, Dread Central<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blumhouse is doing another Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s\u00a0movie, and enlisted a new writer to craft its script. That…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,222409,84375,221400,2839,222410,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-663661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-five-nights-at-freddys-3","tag-five-nights-at-freddys","tag-gary-dauberman","tag-movies","tag-scott-cawthon","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}