Whoa Scoob, Shaggy's gonna be like, the bad guy in a Five Nights at Freddy's movie

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Whenever someone cuts Mathew Lillard a check, an angel gets its wings.

Freddy Fazbear next to Matthew Lillard
(Image credit: Scott Cawthorn, Warner Bros.)

As reported by Deadline, actors Matthew Lillard and Josh Hutcherson have joined the cast of the upcoming Five Nights at Freddy's movie. Later, popular FNAF streamer Dawko was given the opportunity to reveal their specific roles in the film during a St. Jude charity stream. Hutcherson will be playing original FNAF protagonist Mike Schmidt, the night shift security guard, while Lillard will be playing Freddy Fazbear's Pizza founder William Afton.

Lillard is perhaps most famous for playing Shaggy in the live action Scooby Doo movies, as well as in many animated adaptations and Multiversus. The circle is now complete, with Lillard making his heel turn to terrorize the youth in the name of some nefarious plot. 

Lillard is also just a fantastic character actor at the height of his powers, an S-tier "hey, it's that guy" who improves whatever he's in. Whether he's hamming it up as Cereal Killer in Hackers or cracking under interrogation for a murder he didn't commit in Twin Peaks: The Return, it's always a good time to get your Lillard on.

Aside from Lillard, you may recognize Hutcherson from his role as Peeta in the Hunger Games movies. I could definitely see him pulling off the "hapless everyman who stumbles into a cursed security guard job" his role demands. Dawko's stream also revealed that actress Piper Rubio will play Hutcherson's younger sister in the movie, while Mary Stuart Masterson will portray everyone's favorite FNAF character, "Unnamed Female Villain."

Ted Litchfield
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Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister's copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting. When he's not playing or writing about games, you can find Ted lifting weights on his back porch. You can follow Ted on Bluesky.