It was said by our collaborator Tom Thumb in the review of the latest Child’s Play franchise entry Cult of Chucky (2017) [you can read it here]. “Let’s just hope that in the future new names bloom out to bring passion and excitement, not only to that little doll but to the majority of horror icons that don’t deserve to be mistreated by celluloid caciques. The ones that think franchises are their playground, losing the sight what they were originally created for: to please the fans, the real owners of the hall of fame of monsters”.
New blood has been brought in for the Child’s Play (2019) remake. As starters, the new movie has been directed by Lars Klevberg, responsible for the awards winner horror short film Polaroid (2015) and its full-length adaptation. And the screenplay has been written by Tyler Burton Smith, writer of the storyline of the popular videogame Quantum Break (2016), and co-writer of the awaited Kung Fury 2, currently in pre-production.
Besides renewing the crew, the whole cast is full of faces new to the Child’s Play franchise. Starting with Mark Hamill voicing the diabolic doll replacing Brad Dourif, and following the new set of victims for the evil creature’s violence rampage starring Aubrey Plaza, Gabriel Bateman, Tim Matheson, Brian Tyree Henry, David Lewis, Ty Consiglio, Carlease Burke, Beatrice Kitsos and Nicole Anthony.
Child’s Play (2019) tells the story of a young mother who gives her son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature. A plotline shared with the original movie Child’s Play (1988). In fact, it has transcended that some of the rejected scenes from the original script have been used in this new movie.
In a conversation with Cinema Blend, producer Seth Grahame-Smith has stated that Child’s Play (2019) is aiming for the R-rating due to its violent contents. “We sort of lean into more of the AI/Kaslan story and hint at a Chucky that is driven by something different than he is in the original series when he’s Charles Lee Ray and he’s just a truly psychopathic killer in the body of a doll. [Also, there is] the mother/son story, the emotional component of the movie, which I feel like the movie really delivers. And then above all that, just the intensity, the gore, the fact that the movie is rated R, that it really does go there when it goes there. I think the movie looks big, is much bigger than a lot of movies that are our size – very affordable movie, we are. But we had big ambitions. Those are, I’d say, the primary things we’re going for.”
Child’s Play (2019) is opening worldwide in June this year. Here you can watch the latest trailer for the movie.
