The redheaded stepchild of slasher films
Don Mancini, the creator of the originalChild’s Playis currently working to develop a TV show based on the franchise. He hopes that by invoking theChild’s Playmoniker for the series, he’ll signal that the show is going to be “darker than ever before and very creepy.”
The show is not, however, going to be a reboot of the material and will continue the canon of the seven film series. Maybe this will help, as I’m finding eight solid hours of Chucky hard to keep going.
Though Mancini wroteChild’s Play, he only directedSeed of Chucky, Curse of Chucky,andCult of Chucky.Seed of Chuckyis the one where Chucky has a Harry Potter-sounding kid whom Chucky realizes he’s the father of, since they have matching Made in Japan stamps on their wrists. This will remain canon.
For his credit, Mancini has been trying to bring the series in a darker direction with his last two outings.
I’ve had a strained relationship withChild’s Play. The first scared the hell out of little kid Kyle and made me mistrust the big, plastic Frankenstein’s monster that I was always certain would kill me in my sleep. The garbage truck scene fromChild’s Play 3had my dad cursing at me for being a baby when I refused to go to bed that night. After that, they filled the same space as theLeprechaunfilms, where I didn’t watch them to get scared as I did in the often vain hopes of seeing breasts.Liar Liarimbued me with a crazy crush on Jennifer Tilly that would drag me through hell and back, and I leftBride of Chuckydisappointed on a plethora of levels. ’90s slashers were hopelessly reserved in this area.
Oh, to be young again.
The series has no filming schedule or network attached, yet.
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