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The ‘Chucky 7’ Production Office is Now Open!
Writer director Don Mancini is trolling us hard on Twitter, teasing the imminent return of Chucky, a serial killer (Charles Lee Ray) who transferred his soul into the body of a Good Guys Doll back in 1988’s Child’s Play.
The Child’s Play films have remained canon for nearly 30 years, with the latest installment being Universal’s 2013 Curse of Chucky, which introduced us to Fiona Dourif, the daughter of Brad, who lends his voice to good ol’ Chuckster.
Curse was filmed in 2012 in Winnipeg, and it looks as if Mancini and his crew are returning for the long-gestured tentatively-titled(?) Chucky 7.
Mancini already shared selfies in front of the Curse house and with Fiona and Brad, posted the weather in Winnipeg, and now just blew the lid off the long kept secret with the following tweet:
#CHUCKY7 #winnipeg pic.twitter.com/DRn8TL82cX
— Don Mancini (@RealDonMancini) December 8, 2016
Yes, it appears that the production office is officially open for Chucky 7, which means one of two things: production is either underway or about to begin. We’ve put in numerous calls to Universal for official confirmation and details but have been met with silence.
What we do know is that Fiona will be reprising her role, as will Brad. Also returning are Summer H. Howell, Jennifer Tilly (who became the popular female doll, Tiffany, in Bride of Chucky before transferred her soul into the body of actress Jennifer Tilly in Seed of Chucky) and Alex Vincent, star of the first two Child’s Play films who returned in a shocking post credits sequence in Curse. The film ended as if Mancini planned to tie the previous three films – Bride of Chucky, Seed of Chucky and Curse of Chucky – together in a seventh film, which has been in development for the better part of the year.
We’ll continue to reach out to the filmmakers and producers in hopes of getting some official word, but for now let’s just celebrate that Chucky will be returning as early as in 2017, although I can see Universal holding this title for the franchise’s 30th anniversary in 2018.
Let’s rock!
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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