MatPat And Blumhouse Productions Collaborating On Amanda The Adventurer Movie

For 15 years Matthew Patrick, much better called MatPat, has actually turned toy-starring scary video games into a home market. His “Game Theory” videos have actually been critical in turning the 5 Nights at Freddy’s series into an around the world phenomenon. After that video game made ticket office bank, Hollywood is tapping Patrick himself to establish more mascot scaries into function length hits, beginning with 2022’s Amanda the Adventurer

“The concept is that I’m taking a few of my preferred indie video games and scary channels from the online interwebz and I am partnering with Blumhouse to bring them to the cinema,” states Patrick in front of a banner of Raising Cane’s Chicken logo designs“We are providing the spotlight that they are worthy of, the loudspeaker they require, due to the fact that they’re unbelievable.”

Revealed at today’s New York Comic Con, Patrick has actually been employed by Blumhouse Productions, the respected scary studio behind whatever from The Purge to Jordan Peele’s Go outfor a “multi-project offer,” reports RangeThe cooperation will be kicking things off with a cinema adjustment of Amanda the AdventurerDreadXP’s tape-centric puzzle scary about exhuming a progressively ominous kids’s television program.

Patrick’s decade-plus series of “Game Theory” videos raised 5 Nights at Freddy’s flash in the pan into an unkillable experience. Disclosing, hypothesizing and most likely affecting the tradition of the video games, the story behind wicked animatronics has actually grown so infamously tangled that just the most screen-addled pre-teens can parse it. And they have! Investing their own time and whichever cousins will listen to them at household supper, 5 Nights at Freddy’s didn’t equate into a quality movie however a fantastic cash maker for Blumhouse in 2023. Patrick himself made cameos in both it and its 2025 follow up.

The Game Theory videos have actually ended up being institutional in indie scary video games. Along with Poppy’s Playtime Baldi and Bendythe YouTuber’s appeal formed a particular, bankable design of conspiracy-heavy, spin-off friendly tales of kids’s toys that murder individuals. Even if they aren’t old sufficient to understand Chuck E. Cheese au naturale, the entire Pizza Time Theater team are now substantially less popular amongst their target group than their blood-thirsty facsimiles.

Which other video games Patrick winds up increasing into the cross-media vortex is yet to be validated, however we understand one which isn’t in the running. Throughout his Comic Con statement, somebody in the crowd shouted “Slender Man.” “They currently attempted Slender Man,” reacted Patrick. “That ship has actually cruised my buddy.”