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‘Child’s Play’ Creator Reveals New Details For Upcoming Syfy Series
Creator Don Mancini, also teased details for the upcoming Twitter watch party of Child’s Play happening tonight at 8/7c
If you haven’t already heard, Syfy Wire is hosting Twitter watch party of Child’s Play tonight! The virtual event will be hosted by Whitney Moore, and will feature plenty of behind-the-scenes commentary from franchise creator Don Mancini.
Recently, Mancini sat down with SYFY WIRE, and says he is excited to watch the film with fans. Something Mancini says that he’s never done before. He also said that he “provided the team with a bunch of tidbits that I thought would be interesting to talk about.”
Those special details will include information such as the details surrounding Chucky’s first victim, Aunt Maggie, played by Dinah Manoff. Mancini says the version of her death in the film, her falling from the window, had actually “changed from my original script to the finished movie.”
“I’m looking forward to talking about little Alex Vincent’s amazing acting chops when he breaks down into obviously real tears in front of the camera when Chucky’s coming to get him. There’s an interesting story behind that.”
Alex Vincent played played Andy Barclay, a child who has the misfortune of receiving the possessed doll. He returned to reprise his role in Child’s Play 2 in 1990 and also as an adult in Curse of Chucky (2013) and Cult of Chucky in 2017.
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The Child’s Play film series has now led Mancini to a new stage, with a new series to bring Chucky up-to-date with the world today. But he says it’s his goal to bring the Voodoo practicing doll back to horror.
“One of the things that we’ve always tried to do over the course of the decades and the different movies, is we just try to switch it up a lot,” Mancini explains. “From film to film, I’ve always tried to create a different tone, plug Chucky into a different subgenre. We’ve gone from straightforward slasher to comedy to crazy satirical comedy and back to straightforward horror again.”
“With this TV show, our mission has been to preserve the straightforward scariness of the original film or the first couple of films. But at the same time, continue on with this ever-expanding tapestry of consistent story that we’ve spun over the course of seven movies and 30-some years. I think fans are really gonna love to see the new characters that we introduce into this realm and just to see how they came off of our classic characters. Not just Chucky, but some of the others that you may be hoping to see. There’s a good chance they may turn up.”
“One thing I think I can probably safely say is that it’s a look at what it means to be a kid today in the 21st century, as distinct from what it was like to be a kid in the 1980s, when we first showed up on the scene,” the creator adds. “That’s one thing I think people can look forward to and thinking about: ‘How does Chucky operate in a world where kids spend so much of their time on social media?”
“I think the prospect of seeing Chucky sharpen his skills and add to his toolbox, some of the technical goodies that we have at our disposal now, that’s something I think people will find pretty interesting. It’s so important to give Chucky new weapons, new strategies, and new targets, new goals … Chucky has a different goal in the TV show than he’s ever had before, and it’s specifically something that is designed to evoke something that’s going on in the zeitgeist today.”
Mancini also says that the TV series will use “pretty much 100 percent puppetry.” Stating that “I think it’s so important to keep Chucky as a practical puppet effect, partly because it’s important for the actors to have something to respond to on set … I also think it’s important that Chucky have the feel of a doll, of a puppet. He should be a little bit herky-jerky.”
For now Don Mancini is happy to see how the fans interact with the watch party. “I’m looking forward to hearing what are the things about the movie that fans love about it now,” Mancini finishes. “Is there something new about Chucky in 2020? Is there something that you’ve never seen in it before that you didn’t see 30-some years ago? I’m interested to hear what the fans have to say.”
Be sure to tune into the watch party, which includes social engagements from Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes, beginning at tonight May 21st at 8 p.m. EST. You can use the Twitter hashtag #syfywirerewind. Child’s Play is available to stream on Netflix, and to rent or purchase on FandangoNOW. Don’t forget to follow ScaryNerd for more of all things horror!
You can check out the full interview here.
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