According to Deadline, Blumhouse announced Friday that MatPat is developing a feature adaptation of "Amanda the Adventurer," the indie puzzle game about a haunted children's show.
For ten years the job went like this: sit on a couch, find one weird thing inside a small game nobody talked about, and explain it for 22 minutes. Now the job is: do the same thing, except the weird thing is the movie. Blumhouse is the studio, the game is the source material, and the guy who did the pre-sale on the theory is now doing the pre-sale on the adaptation.
The FNAF pipeline makes the math legible. MatPat played waiter Ness in the first film, voiced Toy Bonnie in the sequel, and the franchise is past $520 million worldwide. The YouTuber who explained the haunted animatronics is now in the haunted animatronics, and Variety ran the same story the same day, which is how you know a development deal is real.
"Amanda the Adventurer" is already a children's show inside a children's show inside a game about a videotape found in an attic. The movie will be the fourth layer of the dollhouse, and nobody in the room has ever cut a scene. That is not a risk, that is the strategy: find the explainer who already sold it, hand him a budget, and use the comment section as the focus group.
YOUR TURN: Is a 22-minute video essay the new greenlight or the new trailer?
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