Five Nights At Freddy's Had An Animatronic Spontaneously Combust During Filming
We see time and time again that making a video game always comes with unexpected challenges. It's the exact same in movies too, and working with real animatronics for the Five Night at Freddy's movie presented director Emma Tammi and her team with a lot more challenges than usual. Having to work with several hulking robots dressed up as animals can't have been easy, especially when one of them decides to go up in flames on a random evening.
That's apparently what happened on the set of Five Nights at Freddy's during one fateful filming session, as the Foxy animatronic decided it was bored of waiting around for its time to shine and set its own arm on fire. This story was told by Tammi in a recent interview with IGN, in which she was asked about any weird techincal difficulties that occured while working with the animatronics.
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"There was one day where we were rolling and I heard someone quietly and calmly say 'Foxy's arm is on fire'," laughs Tammi. "And I looked over and one of the servos had been going for quite some time and had overheated, which happens sometimes."
"This was actually the only time it happened on set, and it just started smoking and everyone calmly walked away. We put it out and switched out the arm but yeah, there were live robotic elements at play and sometimes they only have a certain amount of time they can operate."
Right now, you may be thinking that Tammi and her team could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by just using CG for the animatronics, but Tammi goes on to explain that she and series creator Scott Cawthorn wanted to "pay homage" to the late nineties and early naughties due to the movie's setting, and wanted to try and
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