

In June this year Cawthon sparked criticism after he confirmed that he had financially backed a number of US Republican candidates, including former US president Donald Trump. "Filming starts in spring!!! :D" Cawthon concluded.

This screenplay "makes sense" and had "the best pieces from all the previous screenplays", Cawthon said, including "all the right characters, all the right motivations, all the right stakes". Last November, Cawthon said he had passed on nine screenplays "from big studios, some from big directors, some from me and some from other hired writers" but had ultimately settled on a draft which would be made. It's odd to hear Cawthorn's issues with the film's script are still impacting production. Basically, Scott has kind of like the equivalent of 'final cut' and it's taken longer than I hoped to get the right story."īlum also confirmed that director Chris Columbus was "no longer attached" and that whether a new director had been brought on board was "classified information". I don't have the right to do anything Scott doesn't like. I don't want to do something that Scott doesn't like. "The only way that we would go about it is giving Scott. "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.
