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UPDATED: Child's Play Remake in the Works

Source:Edward Douglas
October 22, 2007


While many of producer David Kirschner's recent movies with his partner Corey Siniega, such as the biopic Miss Potter and the upcoming Martian Child, might not necessarily be "Shock-worthy", Kirschner's second film, Child's Play roughly twenty years ago kicked off a popular horror franchise that has inspired many imitations and four sequels.

ShockTillYouDrop.com had a chance to interview Kirschner for his upcoming movie where he surprised us by announcing that they were working on another "Chucky" movie, which would be a remake of the original Child's Play. (But surely, we all knew this was coming, right?)

"We're discussing it with Don Mancini, who has written all of them with us from the beginning," Kirschner told us. "The next one we're going to do is we're going back and remaking the first one and even pushing it further and making a very terrifying version of the first one, which is pretty scary as it is."

UPDATE: A bit of a misunderstanding from our original conversation, which David was nice enough to rectify. They've been talking to Don Mancini, writer of all the films and director of Seed of Chucky, to actually direct the remake, something that was a bit unclear. David told us, "Don has been my partner from the beginning of this franchise and has some very very creepy and scary ideas about going back to the
original and giving it some more bite that we believe will satisfy the appetite of today's horror fans (and loyal Chucky fans, as well.) Our hope and plan is that Don will write and direct the film and he and I look forward to getting the studio on board with us asap."

That certainly sounds very promising!

Of course, the age-old question of "Why?" immediately came up. "Look at 'Halloween'," he quickly responded. "It's kind of commerce to keep the franchise going, and another reason to go see it. For me, it's exciting, because the first one was really scary and then from there, we kind of… my favorites are 1 and 4. I love 4, it really makes me laugh and I think Jennifer Tilly is so great, but just the idea of going back to where we were the first time around and I think for me, it's almost 30 years later for me as a filmmaker from where I started to now, and the idea of taking some skill that maybe I didn't possess then and putting it towards the next film, I think could be exciting."

Would they possibly use the same script? "I think it would be pretty close to it, that's for sure, but there's some other things that we're exploring also, and some twists that we don't want the audience to expect, as far as a couple deaths, where you think you're going in one way and you're going to go in another way as a result of knowing it and it being such a popular franchise." These new developments may include learning more about Charles Lee Ray, although they're discussing whether series regular Brad Dourif will be back in that role and once again voicing Chucky.

But don't just assume that because we're well into the 21st Century that Chucky will be any sort of CG motion-captured creation. "It'll be an animatronic doll, like we do all of them, but animatronics have grown from when we did the first one 20 years ago. We just did the commentary on the 20th Anniversary of it, and all the stars, the little kid Andy Barkley, all of that, so that's coming out in January/February."

Stay tuned to ShockTillYouDrop.com for more news as things develop.

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Posted by: Blue Ray on July 14, 2010 at 16:24:04

I dont think this remake will be all that good.
like people have stated it was having buddy dolls in either your friends house or your own that made you afraid of this when you were young, believing something could actually be lurking somewhere nearby. in a remake what is chuckys body going to be in a pokemon or hrry potter doll ? my buddys like chucky have been gone since the 80's.
I dont think these movies, or most by that matter can offer real scares to adults who are used to watching horror.
horror movies like CP1 really are best enjoyed by brave tweens willing to sneak views at thier parents movie collections and rentals.
movies are never as scary as when your a kid.

Posted by: EMAN on July 20, 2010 at 01:55:27

ILOVE CHUCKY

Posted by: azarath on August 9, 2010 at 19:26:45

when will the new childs play remake trailer will be release?

Posted by: Gaius Geranio on August 13, 2010 at 13:28:45

I want Chucky to be ruthless and I want him to ultimately win the movie. Im a huge fan of the first 2. I say at the end when you think chuckys dead it should so Andy's face and he should say something chucky would say signifying chucky won and is in Andys body and end the series/

Posted by: frisco on August 15, 2010 at 20:57:45

OHHHHHHHH SSSSSSSS****TTTTTTTTTTT NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO im stilll scared as hell of chuky i dont think i can handle thiss

Posted by: blanche on August 28, 2010 at 16:32:45

Tiffany is my fav and always will be but this remake is gunna insult the original like if you love him soo much this should piss u off cause they are takng an already awsome movie abdtrying to fix it then they dont no how great it is

Posted by: Chris on September 2, 2010 at 20:41:07

Child's Play is one of my favorite horror movies. I am so excited that a remake of the original movie is in the works. Brad Dourif is a must have in the film. The movie will NOT be a success without Brad Dourif. The producer/director must keep in mind that the older generation will know that a very important part of the puzzel is missing if Brad Dourif is not voicing Chucky.

Posted by: DimmuBorgirmi on September 2, 2010 at 22:45:00

Are you kidding? C'mon, really? The first one was absolute garbage, let alone the sequels. And people want to remake a pile of crap? Wow, creativity really has been hacked to death.

Posted by: Mitch on September 3, 2010 at 21:54:58

Don't really know what to expect on this one, I mean the creators had a great plot story line on original and just kind of "winged-it" on where they ended for sequels for 2 and 3. Bride of chucky was a desperate attempt on continuing the trilogy. It was successfull......somewhat. Then seed of chucky had nothing to do with any of the horror from the original childs plays'. Went from a horror classic,romantic comedy,to ridicolous.

Posted by: Mitch on September 3, 2010 at 22:10:30

P.S. for those who want to bash on the original child's play, you really need to do you homework on looking up ratings and numbers in 1988. Child's play (1988) is on of the most successfull horror films of its decade and pretty much to now. These are not opinionated, these are actual facts. Ignorance requires research.

Posted by: Everett on September 4, 2010 at 04:08:51

So the plot is generally the same and the effects are going to be practical as well...so my question is...what's the point?

Posted by: 6666 on September 4, 2010 at 15:59:06

Brad does not wanna come bak becuz he thought of4 &5 and now ...

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