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Alleged Plot Details Suggest How Different the Killer Doll in the ‘Child’s Play’ Remake Will Be
Let’s briefly recap here. While Don Mancini and Universal continue the original Child’s Play franchise with a television series and potentially more films, MGM has taken it upon themselves to entirely remake the franchise, with a brand new Child’s Play on the way from director Lars Klevberg. At this time, we don’t know if the killer doll in the remake will even be named Chucky, but it seems it’ll be a very different doll. Early plot details referred to it as a “robot doll,” and ComicBook.com provides more insight into all that today.
According to the site’s unnamed sources, the new Chucky is “a defective ‘Buddy doll’ whose programming code was hacked so that he has no limitations to learning and also violence.” They add that the doll apparently gets re-programmed by a Chinese factory worker, who ends up committing suicide after removing the doll’s limitations… for whatever reason.
Again, we have no idea what the doll is actually going to look like or if it will be named Chucky, but it seems 100% certain that Brad Dourif will *not* be voicing the character.
Last we heard, filming is set to begin next month on Klevberg’s film, wherein Andy, a twelve-year-old boy, and his friends face off against a robot doll on a killing spree.
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‘Onslaught’ – First Look at Unrecognizable Dan Stevens as a Mad Scientist in Adam Wingard’s A24 Movie
The brand new official trailer for director Adam Wingard’s new A24 movie Onslaught arrived this morning, with the upcoming film set in the same world as Wingard’s The Guest.
Onslaught is set in the very same town as The Guest, with both films centering on the very same secret program. “So you could actually technically call this a sequel,” Wingard teases.
But will Dan Stevens make an appearance in Onslaught? Yes, actually. The star of The Guest is reteaming with Wingard for Onslaught, but he will NOT be playing the same character.
Instead, Dan Stevens is playing a mad German scientist in Onslaught, presumably the man responsible for creating the film’s “perfect soldiers” gone wrong. Stevens is actually glimpsed in today’s trailer, but he’s completely unrecognizable and buried under heavy prosthetics.
Dan Stevens played David Collins in The Guest, you may recall, a military test subject who becomes an unstoppable super soldier. He’s clearly not playing the same character in Onslaught, but the role of “German Scientist” looks to be a fun wink to his role in The Guest.
Watch the new trailer below for a sneak peek at Dan Stevens as German Scientist!
Adam Wingard’s Onslaught releases in theaters September 4, 2026.
The duo behind The Guest, director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett, are re-teaming for the upcoming Onslaught, which stars Adria Arjona in the leading role.
Here’s the synopsis: “When a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers break loose in the desert, a badass Army sniper must unleash hell to protect her young daughter.”
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