Five Nights at Freddy's film 

Video Game 'Five Nights at Freddy's' Getting Movie Treatment (Exclusive)

Roy Lee, Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg will produce the adaptation.

, the popular video game series created by Scott Cawthon.

The feature adaptation will be produced by Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment as well as Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg of KatzSmith Productions.

The game takes place in Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, a darker version of Chuck-E-Cheese, where an animatronic animal band performs kiddy songs by day, and goes on murderous rampages by night. The goal of the game is to survive a night locked inside, knowing that a furry death machine might jump out of the dark at any moment.

“We’re looking forward to working with Scott to make an insane, terrifying and weirdly adorable movie,” said Grahame-Smith.

"The story really lends itself to being a movie, and it taps into a largely unexplored niche of horror that a lot of people will be able to relate to," said Cawthon.

Adam Stone and Jay Ireland will exec produce. Jon Berg and Nik Mavinkurve are overseeing for Warners.

Lee was a producer on Warners’ Liam Neeson action thriller

remake due to open May 22. Grahame-Smith and Katzenberg, meanwhile, are developing a

The trio are producing Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of the seminal Stephen King novel

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