Five Nights at Freddy's 2 Poster Revealed — and Someone's Trying to Lure Us Back to Fazbear's

Here we spell again! The upcoming sequel to the Five Nights astatine Freddy’s movie adaptation, simply titled Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 2, has officially released its poster — and needless to say, we’re beauteous excited to caput backmost to Freddy Fazbear’s for a portion (pun intended) erstwhile again.

The one-sheet features a children’s artifact called the FazTalker, which feels reminiscent of a two-way vigor and 1 of those kids boombox-microphone combos from Fisher Price backmost successful the day. It features the pizza joint’s main mascot, Freddy Fazbear, and has speakers and/or a microphone successful the ears and an unfastened mouth. Instead of an existent bowtie, that abstraction is outlined and a connection surface is successful its place. In the poster, that surface reads: “You there?”

Clearly, idiosyncratic is trying to communicate, perchance with Mike, the archetypal film’s starring antheral who is going to beryllium played erstwhile again by The Hunger Games alum Josh Hutcherson. Considering the movie’s last act, it isn’t far-fetched to deliberation this poster representation could someway beryllium related to William Afton, the proprietor of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza and main antagonist played by Matthew Lillard.

Five Nights astatine Freddy's 2 poster. Credit: Universal Studios.

While Afton, who is presumed dormant astatine this point, did not look successful the archetypal movie arsenic Freddy Fazbear — spoiler alert here, but helium did extremity up becoming Springtrap, which is simply a circumstantial mentation of the yellowish Bonnie rabbit costume that FNAF fans cognize good — that doesn’t mean that this can’t perchance beryllium his shade trying to pass from the beyond.

That said, there’s a batch of imaginable explanations for the toy, arsenic it isn’t portion of the archetypal FNAF lore and seems to person been created for the movie. Mike’s small sister, Abby, could perchance ain the toy, which mightiness past beryllium trying to pass with, and possibly adjacent messiness with, her — particularly erstwhile you see that it has already been established successful the archetypal movie that the ghosts of the children Afton killed were capable to pass via the dreams and drawings of some Mike and Abby. It decidedly feels plausible that this instrumentality could someway beryllium co-opted to enactment wrong those confines and past beryllium utilized for evil, possibly adjacent successful an effort to lure the characters backmost to Fazbear’s again.

According to a property merchandise from Universal, the movie has besides settled connected a tagline for the 2nd installment: “Anyone tin past 5 nights. This time, determination volition beryllium nary 2nd chances.” Honestly, we’re scared. The archetypal 5 nights were hard enough!

The archetypal FNAF movie, which was released successful October 2023, “opened to a record-shattering $80 cardinal and went connected to gain astir $300 cardinal worldwide,” according to the studio. The adjacent movie — which was written by the game’s creator Scott Cawthon and directed by Emma Tammi, who helmed the 2023 deed —is acceptable to beryllium released connected December 5, 2025.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.