MGM is proposing a remake of Child’s Play.
Child’s Play, for me, is the least movie I will watch, or maybe I will never dare to watch. It was fairly terrible horror franchise, which ultimately became more warmly regarded as the film-makers embraced the inherent camp silliness of Chucky’s adventures with Bride of Chucky. Now it seems that with original ideas at premium, the film’s original makers have forgotten how flat Chucky fell when it took its own horror seriously.
Original writer Don Mancini, who has completed his script for a reboot, said of the new venture:
This particular project was first mooted as far back and 2007, but rights to the franchise were subject to dispute between MGM, who made the original film, and Universal, who made all of the other films in the franchise. MGM now have full control on the series and with their intention to reboot former glories (such as Robocop), Child’s Play seems an obvious choice.
Producing the film will be David Kirschner (Hocus Pocus) and Brad Dourif will return to voice Chucky.
source: http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/category/movie-news#ixzz1HvBlFKOX
Child’s Play, for me, is the least movie I will watch, or maybe I will never dare to watch. It was fairly terrible horror franchise, which ultimately became more warmly regarded as the film-makers embraced the inherent camp silliness of Chucky’s adventures with Bride of Chucky. Now it seems that with original ideas at premium, the film’s original makers have forgotten how flat Chucky fell when it took its own horror seriously.
Original writer Don Mancini, who has completed his script for a reboot, said of the new venture:
“That’s really our goal with this next movie, bottom-line, was to make it scary again. After having, I think, rather successfully mined the horror-comedy aspects of this concept over the course of Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky, the fans are really telling us that they want it to be scary again. Doing the remake just provides us with a really good opportunity to bring it home, so to speak.”
This particular project was first mooted as far back and 2007, but rights to the franchise were subject to dispute between MGM, who made the original film, and Universal, who made all of the other films in the franchise. MGM now have full control on the series and with their intention to reboot former glories (such as Robocop), Child’s Play seems an obvious choice.
Producing the film will be David Kirschner (Hocus Pocus) and Brad Dourif will return to voice Chucky.
source: http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/category/movie-news#ixzz1HvBlFKOX
