How cool is it that a new Chucky movie is currently being filmed?!
After Curse of Chucky, which completely restored my faith in the franchise, I cannot wait to see what writer/director Don Mancini does with this year’s Cult of Chucky. The seventh installment in the series will feature the returns of Nica Pierce, Tiffany, and even Andy Barclay, and of course, at the center of the whole thing is the most iconic killer doll to ever grace the screen.
Sorry, Annabelle. But you’re just no match for Chucky.
In this latest behind the scenes photo from the Winnipeg, Canada set, shared on Twitter by @fionadourif, we see Don Mancini directing some action, and if you look closely, you’ll also see a headless/handless Chucky doll hanging out on the set. It’s not much, but this is the first we’ve seen of the doll that’ll be featured in Cult of Chucky, so we figured you’d like to see it.
Check out the image below.
Brad Dourif is confirmed to once again provide Chucky’s voice, while his daughter, Fiona, will be reprising her Curse role. Also returning are Summer H. Howell (Curse of Chucky), 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 this seventh film.
Here’s the official synopsis that came attached with the initial announcement trailer.
“Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif) is erroneously convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family. But when her psychiatrist introduces a new therapeutic “tool” to facilitate his patients’ group sessions — an all-too-familiar “Good Guy” doll with an innocently smiling face — a string of grisly deaths begins to plague the asylum, and Nica starts to wonder if maybe she isn’t crazy after all. Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent), Chucky’s now-grown-up nemesis from the original Child’s Play, races to Nica’s aid. But to save her he’ll have to get past Tiffany (Oscar-nominee Jennifer Tilly), Chucky’s long-ago bride, who will do anything, no matter how deadly or depraved, to help her beloved devil doll.”
Cult of Chucky, which takes place in an asylum, will be released in an unrated version on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD this fall, in time for Halloween.
