Producers Talk Remaking Child’s Play

Posted by bob in Films, News on August 20th, 2008

Hard to believe little Chucky is about to turn 20.  And yet, not only is his birthday being celebrated with a special edition DVD of Child’s Play, there’s a remake in the offing.  Don Mancini and David Kirshner, the brains behind the franchise, talked with Ain’t it Cool News about their child.

In looking over the series, the producers say the remake is in response to fans wishing the series was out-and-out horror once again, so a reboot was called for, one in which Mancini will write and direct.  Having said that, Brad Dourif will still be providing the maniacal mannequin with a voice.

”I think what we are mainly responding to, David and I, is the will of the fans, which is really telling us that they want to see a scary Chucky movie again,” Mancini said. “They want to go back to the straightforward horror rather than the horror comedy. I think it has the potential to be scarier than the original based on the stuff we are talking about, which I know sounds very mysterious and abstract, but anyone in our position would say that at this point, but as you pointed out we do have the advantage of being the people who created the franchise in the first place.”