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Has Production Begun on the ‘Child’s Play’ Remake?
Whether we like it or not, MGM is remaking Child’s Play, and it looks as if they’re moving at lightning speed. Rushing to beat the James Wan-produced techno-thriller M3GAN into theaters, Polaroid director Lars Klevberg hit social with this bomb: an Instagram post showing the screenplay (by Tyler Burton Smith) and knife, with the caption, “Week 1. Let’s play.” He hilariously tags it with #legacy and #respect, which is exactly what a Child’s Play remake isn’t considering creator Don Mancini is still directing sequels and a forthcoming television series over at Universal.
But I digress, what does week one mean? We’ve yet to receive any casting news. Does he mean they’ve officially entered pre-production, or have MGM and Klevberg quietly started filming as early as two weeks ago? We reached out to MGM for more information and will report back with anything we learn.
The 1980s horror classic centered on a toy doll possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
Editor’s note: Lars has removed his Instagram post.
Directed by ’80s and ’90s horror mainstay Tom Holland and created by Don Mancini, Child’s Play told the story of a popular toy doll named Chucky that becomes possessed and terrorizes a single mom and her son, as the killer needs the son’s body to jump into before his transference to the doll becomes permanent.
However, the contemporary reboot is said to involve a group of kids and a technologically-advanced doll that enters their world.
No word on if the new film will use Chucky – but from what we’re told, they can do anything they want as it pertains to Holland’s film of the same name.
Thanks to @spideparker for the heads up.
Universal has been having a hell of a time getting their Universal Monsters brand back on a better path in the wake of the Dark Universe collapsing, with four movies thus far released in the years since The Mummy attempted to get that interconnected universe off the ground.
First was Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, to date the only post-Mummy hit for the Universal Monsters, followed by The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Renfield, and now Abigail. The latter three films have attempted to bring Dracula back to the screen in fresh ways, but both Demeter and Renfield severely underperformed at the box office. And while Abigail is a far better vampire movie than those two, it’s unfortunately also struggling to turn a profit.
Where does the Universal Monsters brand go from here? The good news is that Universal and Blumhouse have once again enlisted the help of Leigh Whannell for their upcoming Wolf Man reboot, which is howling its way into theaters in January 2025. This is good news, of course, because Whannell’s Invisible Man was the best – and certainly most profitable – of the post-Dark Universe movies that Universal has been able to conjure up. The film ended its worldwide run with $144 million back in 2020, a massive win considering the $7 million budget.
Given the film was such a success, you may wondering why The Invisible Man 2 hasn’t come along in these past four years. But the wait for that sequel may be coming to an end.
Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, The Invisible Man star Elisabeth Moss notes that she feels “very good” about the sequel’s development at this point in time.
“Blumhouse and my production company [Love & Squalor Pictures]… we are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” Moss updates this week. “And I feel very good about it.”
She adds, “We are very much intent on continuing that story.”
At the end of the 2020 movie, Elisabeth Moss’s heroine Cecilia Kass uses her stalker’s high-tech invisibility suit to kill him, now in possession of the technology that ruined her life.
Stay tuned for more on The Invisible Man 2 as we learn it.
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