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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.
Director David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) is back this summer with dinosaurs-in-suburbia mystery box movie The End of Oak Street, and tickets are on sale NOW.
To celebrate tickets being put up for grabs this morning, Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for The End of Oak Street along with a few new official posters.
Check out the brand new The End of Oak Street posters and trailer below and look for the sci-fi/horror movie in theaters August 14 from Warner Bros. and producer J.J. Abrams.
Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor come face-to-face with a monstrous threat in The End of Oak Street, which looks like M. Night Shyamalan with retro-style Amblin vibes.
As Mitchell explained to Entertainment Weekly, inspirations for the film include Jurassic Park, The Twilight Zone, Poltergeist, The Valley of Gwangi, and M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs.
The End of Oak Street is set in the early 1980s…
In the film, “After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.”
Maisy Stella and Christian Convery also star.
The film is written and directed by David Robert Mitchell and produced by J.J. Abrams, Hannah Minghella, Jon Cohen, David Robert Mitchell, Matt Jackson and Tommy Harper. The executive producers are Chris Bender, Jake Weiner, Joanne Lee and Leeann Stonebreaker.
David Robert Mitchell’s team behind the camera for WB’s The End of Oak Street includes director of photography Michael Gioulakis, production designer Maya Shimoguchi, editor John Axelrad, composer Michael Giacchino and costume designer Erin Benach.
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