{"id":56696,"date":"2023-11-03T19:08:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T19:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success"},"modified":"2024-07-21T02:14:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T02:14:44","slug":"scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success","title":{"rendered":"Five Nights at Freddy’s Creator Takes To Reddit To Discuss Movie’s Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Five Nights at Freddy’s movie has smashed box office records<\/a> and impressed long-time fans and those new to the series alike<\/a>. Five Nights at Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon, who also worked on the movie, responded to its success in a 1 November Reddit post – his first public announcement since its release.<\/p>\n

“Thanks, everyone for making the opening weekend such a big success,”<\/strong> Cawthon wrote. “It was beyond my wildest dreams. I do read the comments and critiques, so while I’m glad most people had a great time at the movies, I’m definitely paying attention, and I wanted you all to know that.”<\/p>\n

Cawthon explained that he went to multiple showings of his own movie, wearing a disguise in the form of glasses and a beard. “No one recognized me, as I expected,” Cawthon said. Despite the fact that no one recognized Cawthon, he described several hilarious interactions with fans in the theater as he attended the showings.<\/p>\n

\"scott
Scott Cawthon created Five Nights at Freddy’s almost a decade ago. (Picture: Blumhouse)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\n
\n

“On Thursday I went to the very first showing at 2 PM; not many people were there. But just before the movie started a teenage boyfriend and girlfriend walked in; the girlfriend was dressed as Toy Chica, and they sat right next to me,” Cawthon explained.<\/p>\n

“She was obviously a super-fan (him not so much), and I heard her say as she walked in, “What if Scott Cawthon was in here?” A few seconds later after they sat down, I heard her whisper, “That kind of looks like Scott Cawthon.”, gesturing to me. He glanced over at me and then whispered back to her, “Dear, he’s old.” To that, I say- Two things can be true at the same time.”:<\/p>\n

Cawthon’s interactions with fans only got more hilarious and bizarre, with one group simply getting up and moving away from him after sitting next to him in the theater. “I swear I put on deodorant… maybe not enough?” Cawthon joked.<\/p>\n

With the widespread success of Cawthon’s first Five Nights at Freddy’s movie<\/a>, many fans are wondering if a sequel might be coming in the future. While Cawthon himself hasn’t announced anything regarding a potential Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 Movie<\/a>, it seems pretty likely that one could be coming, as multiple people working on the first film have expressed interest in making a follow up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Five Nights at Freddy’s movie has smashed box office records and impressed long-time fans and those new to the series alike. Five Nights at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12834,"featured_media":56697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-five-nights-at-freddys","genre-horror","content_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFive Nights at Freddy's Creator Takes To Reddit To Discuss Movie's Success - GINX TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56696\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Five Nights at Freddy's Creator Takes To Reddit To Discuss Movie's Success - GINX TV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Five Nights at Freddy’s movie has smashed box office records and impressed long-time fans and those new to the series alike. Five Nights at...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"GINX TV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-11-03T19:08:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-21T02:14:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/cawthon-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Cole Podany\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColePodany\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Cole Podany\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Cole Podany\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/487fdee4917a99a94ae59dcd52bfe04c\"},\"headline\":\"Five Nights at Freddy’s Creator Takes To Reddit To Discuss Movie’s Success\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-03T19:08:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-21T02:14:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success\"},\"wordCount\":419,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/cawthon-2.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Five Nights at Freddy's\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success\",\"name\":\"Five Nights at Freddy's Creator Takes To Reddit To Discuss Movie's Success - GINX TV\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/cawthon-2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-11-03T19:08:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-21T02:14:44+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/cawthon-2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/cawthon-2.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Five Nights at Freddy's Creator Takes To Reddit To Discuss Movie's Success\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Five Nights at Freddy’s Creator Takes To Reddit To Discuss Movie’s Success\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/\",\"name\":\"GINX TV\",\"description\":\"GINX TV\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"GINX TV\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/header-new-logo1.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/header-new-logo1.svg\",\"width\":200,\"height\":40,\"caption\":\"GINX TV\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/487fdee4917a99a94ae59dcd52bfe04c\",\"name\":\"Cole Podany\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/temp_Cole-96x96.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/temp_Cole-96x96.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Cole Podany\"},\"description\":\"Cole is a Staff Writer at GINX Esports TV based in the United States. He's a lover of all things horror and particularly loves old horror games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil. You can also find him writing about Dead by Daylight and a slew of other games. Outside of writing for GINX, Cole loves cooking and his two cats.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/colepodany\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColePodany\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/author\/cole-podany\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Five Nights at Freddy's Creator Takes To Reddit To Discuss Movie's Success - GINX TV","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56696","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Five Nights at Freddy's Creator Takes To Reddit To Discuss Movie's Success - GINX TV","og_description":"The Five Nights at Freddy’s movie has smashed box office records and impressed long-time fans and those new to the series alike. Five Nights at...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success","og_site_name":"GINX TV","article_published_time":"2023-11-03T19:08:04+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-07-21T02:14:44+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/cawthon-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1,"type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Cole Podany","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColePodany","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Cole Podany","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success"},"author":{"name":"Cole Podany","@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/487fdee4917a99a94ae59dcd52bfe04c"},"headline":"Five Nights at Freddy’s Creator Takes To Reddit To Discuss Movie’s Success","datePublished":"2023-11-03T19:08:04+00:00","dateModified":"2024-07-21T02:14:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success"},"wordCount":419,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/cawthon-2.jpg","articleSection":["Five Nights at Freddy's"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success","url":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success","name":"Five Nights at Freddy's Creator Takes To Reddit To Discuss Movie's Success - GINX TV","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/cawthon-2.jpg","datePublished":"2023-11-03T19:08:04+00:00","dateModified":"2024-07-21T02:14:44+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/cawthon-2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/cawthon-2.jpg","caption":"Five Nights at Freddy's Creator Takes To Reddit To Discuss Movie's Success"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/five-nights-at-freddys\/scott-cawthon-reddit-discuss-movie-success#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Five Nights at Freddy’s Creator Takes To Reddit To Discuss Movie’s Success"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/","name":"GINX TV","description":"GINX TV","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#organization","name":"GINX TV","url":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/header-new-logo1.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/header-new-logo1.svg","width":200,"height":40,"caption":"GINX TV"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/487fdee4917a99a94ae59dcd52bfe04c","name":"Cole Podany","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/temp_Cole-96x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/temp_Cole-96x96.jpg","caption":"Cole Podany"},"description":"Cole is a Staff Writer at GINX Esports TV based in the United States. He's a lover of all things horror and particularly loves old horror games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil. You can also find him writing about Dead by Daylight and a slew of other games. Outside of writing for GINX, Cole loves cooking and his two cats.","sameAs":["https:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/colepodany","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColePodany"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/author\/cole-podany"}]}},"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}