After FNAF 2, Here Are 7 More Video Game Film & TV Sequels to Look Forward to
Fans of the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise didn’t have to wait too long for the sequel to the popular 2023 adaptation of Scott Cawton’s wildly serialised video game. Given the success of so many game-based movies in recent years, it’s no surprise that a wide range of other sequels are also in the works across film and TV—many of them scheduled for release as early as next year.
These include follow-ups to recent smash hits as well as long-awaited reboots—some of which I’m sure you’ve heard of, others that might come as a bit of a surprise. Read on to discover more and use the guide below to find them on services like AppleTV, Netflix, Prime Video and elsewhere.
Fallout, Season 2 (2025)
Adapting a video game as expansive as Fallout was never going to be easy, so hats off to Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet for making a show that worked for both longtime fans of the franchise and absolute newcomers—and if you happen to be of the latter, imagine a mix of Silo and Futurama and you’ll have some idea of what to expect.
Now, a little over a year and a half since the last season wrapped, we’re returning to the post-apocalyptic wastes to check in with Ella Purnell’s Lucy and Walton Goggin’s Ghoul for another eight-episode run—this time in the tantalising world of New Vegas. Kyle MacLachlan and Aaron Moten also return alongside newcomers Justin Theroux and Macaulay Culkin.
Release date: December 2025
Fans of Konami’s infamously terrifying Silent Hill series have had to wait patiently for a new screen adaptation of the long running video game. Next January, 13 years after the last installment, the critically panned Silent Hill: Revelation, Cristopher Gans (who directed the first movie) is coming back with Return to Silent Hill—a direct adaptation of Silent Hill 2.
If you’ve never played the game, imagine a mix between Resident Evil and a night terror and you’ll have some idea of what you’re in for. Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) and Hannah Emily Anderson (Jigsaw) lead the cast, but no word yet on who’s playing the scary baby.
Release date: January
After at least one famously disastrous attempt to bring everyone’s favourite Italian plumber to the screen in the 1990s, Universal did a pretty decent job out the gate with The Super Mario Bros. Movie—an adaptation that delivered plenty of the nostalgia hits that fans had been crying out for without, let’s say, reinventing the wheel. It also made $1.36 billion at the box office—which helps.
The same writer-director team returns for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which promises to deliver the same offbeat humour and kaleidoscopic imagery—think stuff like The Lego Movie and Sonic the Hedgehog and you’ll have an idea. Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor Joy and Jack Black (the first movie’s MVP) reprise their roles alongside newcomers Brie Larson (as Rosalina) and Bennie Safdie (Bowser Jr.).
Release date: April
When the first Mortal Kombat movie was released directly to HBO Max during lockdown, it quickly became the most streamed movie in the studio’s history. Naturally, that meant that a sequel would soon follow. This one will thankfully play in proper theatres, which means that fans will get a chance to see all that gnarly, R-Rated stuff as big and bloody as possible.
I must say I’m pretty pumped for this one as Karl Urban is set to lead the cast, playing Johnny Cage, and if the trailer is anything to go by, it looks like he’ll be bringing some of that humour from The Boys with him—so if you’re a fan of that show, make sure to add this one to your list!
Release date: May
Normally, I wouldn’t be super excited to hear that a buzzy director, someone responsible for two of the most entertaining original concepts of the last few years (Weapons and Barbarian), was switching to IP filmmaking, but there’s just something about the idea of a Zach Cregger Resident Evil that sounds awesome to me.
Cregger will presumably be looking to take a new approach after Paul WS Anderson’s wonderfully idiosyncratic sextet of movies. Little is known at this point, but I fully expect a more horror-leaning focus to coincide with the movie’s spooky season release date.
Release date: September
The upcoming Street Fighter movie, like Cregger’s Resident Evil, is, of course, more of a reboot than a sequel, but it would be wrong not to give it a mention here. The movie, which is set for release at some point next year, is being produced by Paramount, the studio behind the consistently good Sonic the Hedgehog movies—so there are certainly reasons for optimism.
Directed by Kitao Sakurai (Twisted Metal) from a script by Dalan Musson (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), the movie is set to feature the WWE stars Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns alongside Eric Andre, 50 Cent and Jason Momoa. Sounds fun!
With movies like Jumanji, Kung Fu Panda 4, Super Mario Bros. and presumably Anaconda all making serious bank, a case could be made that Jack Black is the biggest star in Hollywood at the moment. No movie has done more to burnish that argument than The Minecraft Movie, which, at time of writing, remains the second most successful American movie of the year.
Younger readers will probably (accurately) tell me that that phenomenon had more to do with a chicken jockey, but either way, a sequel was inevitable. Expect this one (which might be titled Another Minecraft Movie) at some point in 2027.
Release date: July
