The whole doll thing and clown thing falls into the same weird category for me. I loved watching all the scary stuff during the day, and by night, not only would I pay the price, but my family would as well because every light had to be on in the house and I would have 12 blankets over me in the San Fernando Valley without air conditioning in the sixties. I was always frightened of my sister’s dolls, but the truth is, I was frightened of everything. When I was a kid, I watched an episode of The Twilight Zone with my big sister and my big cousin, called “Talky Tina,” and it starred Telly Savalas. For a little backstory, the reason I did Chucky in the first place, my wife and I had been in London and I bought a book, called The Dollhouse Murders, that I still have in my office. During the interview, he shared stories about his journey from An American Tail to a killer doll, getting Child’s Play greenlit, how he never even thought about a sequel, let alone everything that’s come since the first film’s release, balancing the beauty and laughter of life with the horror that exists, how the first big reveal of Chucky came about, the fine-tuning the film went through prior to its release, how Dourif ultimately came to voice the sarcastic doll, and all the wild merchandise that’s available.Ĭollider: As a producer, is it more nerve-wracking to keep a franchise going, like with Chucky, or is it more nerve-wracking to come back to something many years later, like with Hocus Pocus, and try to find the success and the magic again?ĭAVID KIRSCHNER: Both of those. When producer David Kirschner joined the project, inspired by a lifelong fear of dolls that started with an episode of The Twilight Zone, he made some changes to the Blood Buddy script before John Lafia did a rewrite and Tom Holland signed on to direct, and they were off and running on the start of the hugely popular franchise.Ĭollider recently got the opportunity to chat 1-on-1 with Kirschner (who has also produced the Hocus Pocus films) about the evolution of Chucky, from that first script and his original drawings of what the doll should look like to everything that’s come since. While Chucky’s future seems complex, at least we know old Charles Lee Ray isn’t going to disappear anytime soon.What started as a script by Don Mancini called Blood Buddy, about a doll that came with a pin so that you could become its blood buddy, turned into a tale about a struggling mother ( Catherine Hicks) unknowingly gifting her son ( Alex Vincent) a Good Guy doll that a killer ( Brad Dourif) on the verge of death used voodoo to transfer his soul into. All this, despite the fact that MGM is launching a competing (and completely unnecessary) Child’s Play reboot. In addition to a new Child’s Play TV series, Mancini still dreams of making more Chucky feature films. While once-powerful megahits like Friday the 13 th and A Nightmare on Elm Street struggle to find renewed relevance in the 21 st Century, Chucky has not only survived but thrived. And thus, Child’s Play was born.ģ0 years later, Child’s Play has emerged as one of the most enduring horror franchises in history. When Tom Holland was hired to direct, he incorporated additional voodoo elements that became integral to Chucky’s core mythology. Enter David Kirschner, an animator anxious to prove his horror chops he gave Mancini’s script an overhaul that included the disembodied spirit of a violent serial killer.
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