Forgive this double-post, but I thought it should be it’s own since I have an idea(s) I’m proposing.
So, Seth Grahame-Smith - one of the producers for the FNaF movie - has stated that they (the producers/WB Studios) are collaborating with Cawthon “to make an insane, terrifying and weirdly adorable movie”. I want to touch on this a bit.
It really weirded me out a bit when I first read that line, because I was like, “‘Weirdly adorable’? Heck no! Give me blood and gore! Give me Foxy biting off someone’s frontal lobe and feasting on it!” I didn’t want FNaF to have anything to do with “weirdly adorable”, I wanted it to be utterly horrific. But, reading the line again has made me rethink that.
First of all, it says “insane, terrifying and weirdly adorable”. So there will be terror. Yay! There will be insanity. Yay! It’s the addition of “weirdly adorable” that was throwing me off.
But secondly, I realized something. In essence, FNaF is the story of (SPOILERS-ish) the spirits of deceased kids - whom are haunting animatronics - trying to get revenge on the one who had murdered them. Kids. Haunting robots.
So, what if… what if the movie takes it in a new direction? What if the main star is indeed a night guard who must defend himself from certain death, but the animatronics take a strange turn near the end?
“Weirdly adorable” brings to mind haunted animatronics who should, for all intents and purposes, be horrifying, but in reality you can’t help but feel adoration for them. Hence the word “adorable”. This further makes me think, what if the animatronics near the end show their human side? What if, instead of murdering the night guard, they stop, looking sorrowful and in pain, and we can hear them whispering “help us, help us”? Or, flip side - instead of killing the guard, they laugh and try to play with him. Or maybe they consider stuffing him into a suit is fun playtime.
Either way, I think that, my friends, would be quite weirdly adorable, while also eye-opening at the same time.
Now, “weirdly adorable” could indeed mean other things. It could mean that, during the day, the animatronics are simply just adorable and cute and huggable, despite their underlying horror side. It could also mean nothing, and I’m just reading into it too much.
But my main point is, “weirdly adorable” isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as many might think. It could mean a different twist to the story, or it could just be the company dramatizing everything. Whatever the case, that’s my two cents.