After William Afton was crushed inside of the Spring Bonnie suit in Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023), don’t expect the villain to have much screen time in the sequel.
Matthew Lillard recently admitted that he doesn’t “have a huge part” in Five Night’s at Freddy’s 2, now playing in theaters, but he hopes his murderous animatronic visionary behind Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza will get a final showdown in a potential third installment.
“Don’t hold your breath to seeing a lot of William Afton [in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2],” he told ComingSoon. “Like Star Wars or Harry Potter, Voldemort or Darth Vader, they both sort of show up later in the series.
“So, unfortunately for me, I don’t have a huge part in it. I do think the stuff I get to do is fantastic. I love it. Our hope is that we get to do three films. That’s always been the plan. Everything is dependent on how the movie does in theaters.”
Lillard added, “We’ll get that final Harry Potter vs. Voldemort or Luke Skywalker vs. Darth Vader [in Five Nights at Freddy’s 3]. That’s our hope. Within that, we’ll get to do that and explore more. For now, we’ve got a long way to go; we’ve got to get people into the theaters.”
Matthew Lillard as William Afton in ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ (2023)
With Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 exceeding box office expectations to generate a $109.1M global opening, the possibility of rounding out the trilogy seems more real than ever.
Based on the video game series, Five Nights at Freddy’s follows security guard Mike Schmidt (Josh Hutcherson) as he guards Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, where homicidal animatronics wander the restaurant at night.