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.
