By Apparently, a Child’s Play remake has been in the works for a while. The reason it’s taken so long for the reboot, announced in 2007, to come to fruition is that there are some technical details that need ironing out between MGM, who own the rights to the original, and Universal, who own the rights to the sequels, about who gets what out of the reboot. Hurry up and figure it out, guys, I need me some killer dolls.
Last Friday, ScreenJunkies caught up with Don Mancini, writer of all five movies in the series, for an update. He had this to say:
“I’m personally open to other things but I think that’s what the studio wants, because this movie didn’t do very well so I think the feeling is that Chucky’s viability, his future is in the more straightforward horror vein. I was talking about the rights issues before, I don’t think it’s necessarily what we’ll end up doing as a strict remake. I think we’ll reboot it in the sense that it will just be more conventionally scary and it will only be Chucky and we won’t have Tiffany and Glen, but it won’t necessarily be a strict…
Apparently, a Child’s Play remake has been in the works for a while. The reason it’s taken so long for the reboot, announced in 2007, to come to fruition is that there are some technical details that need ironing out between MGM, who own the rights to the original, and Universal, who own the rights to the sequels, about who gets what out of the reboot. Hurry up and figure it out, guys, I need me some killer dolls.
Last Friday, ScreenJunkies caught up with Don Mancini, writer of all five movies in the series, for an update. He had this to say:
“I’m personally open to other things but I think that’s what the studio wants, because this movie didn’t do very well so I think the feeling is that Chucky’s viability, his future is in the more straightforward horror vein. I was talking about the rights issues before, I don't think it’s necessarily what we’ll end up doing as a strict remake. I think we’ll reboot it in the sense that it will just be more conventionally scary and it will only be Chucky and we won’t have Tiffany and Glen, but it won’t necessarily be a strict remake.”
I’m all for a straightforward scary movie with a Good Guy doll killing people, and according to Mancini, he’s “definitely pushing to go in a very disturbing direction because I feel like if we’re going to go back to it being a horror movie, let’s make it really disturbing.” He also added that they might tweak the iconic killer doll a little, but he’ll still obviously be the Chucky we know and love.
Get Brad Dourif back to voice him and I am so there.
[Via ScreenJunkies]