Franchise: Five Nights at Freddy's

The longest worked-on project in the FNaF franchise is the 2023 movie, having been in production since the first publicly known date of April 2015, seen in an article by Polygon. Since then, the movie has had 9 scrapped scripts, a producer leaving, and several delays in production. The CEO of Blumhouse, Jason Blum, talked about his attempts to get the movie off the ground and his experience working with Scott Cawthon in an interview with IGN saying:

Emese Szigetvári, commonly known as LadyFiszi online, is an artist who used to work on the Five Nights at Freddy's series, providing art for the games and several of the books. However, she has been involved in several controversies since 2019 regarding things such as transphobic comments, writing fanfictions involving pedophilia and sexual assault, grooming allegations, creating art and being a part of groups that glorify Nazism and Fascism, and tracing allegations. Eventually, it got to the point where the official r/fivenightsatfreddys subreddit moderators decided to ban her because of these allegations, drawing even further attention to them. This ultimately lead to Scott Cawthon officially firing LadyFiszi from the franchise on February 27, 2023.

The character "El Chip" is an animatronic version of one of Scott Cawthon's older characters Chipper from Chipper & Sons Lumber Co.. In an interview with YouTuber Dawko, Scott was asked "Will Chipper ever return like he said he would?" and Scott answered:

A recurring sound effect gag appearing throughout the series, by bonking Freddy's nose, it will honk.

On February 15th, 2015, Scott Cawthon, Five night's at Freddy's developer, stated on his Steam Greenlight page that he was hacked and that Five Nights at Freddy's 3 was cancelled. He said that someone had released the game for free and provided a link to the game. However, the game is a version of one of Scott's older games, 'There is No Pause Button,' with Freddy's face pasted on the protagonist while the Troll Song Plays in the background.

Scott Cawthon has stated that he got the idea for the game after releasing an unnamed game in which the player is a Beaver which was critically panned by reviewers. A recurring comments was that the beavers in the game looked like "scary animatronic animals".