You just can’t keep a Good Guy down.
Franchise creator Don Mancini’s seventh installment Cult of Chucky is expected to be released this coming October, and it’ll be the fourth film in the series to star Jennifer Tilly. The actress, who recently popped up for a surprise appearance in the final act of Curse of Chucky, has a larger role in Cult, which very likely won’t be the last we see of the character.
Speaking with THR, Tilly teased the future of the franchise.
“I’m super-good friends with [Don Mancini],” she told the outlet. “I think he’s going to put me in every Chucky movie until the end of time, and I honestly feel like there are going to be Chucky movies until the end of time because at the end of every movie he dies and comes back to life again.”
On her role in Cult of Chucky, Tilly said: “I play Tiffany. And I’m sure you don’t follow it but a few years ago, I played myself and Tiffany went into my body — Jennifer Tilly, international movie star — and Tiffany the doll, Tiffany’s soul went into Jennifer. So in this movie, I may be Tiffany or I may be Jennifer Tilly. We don’t know.”
“They introduce me as Jennifer Tilly, but I’m very Tiffany-esque,” she added. “I kill people. It’s really fun. The Chucky fans and horror film fans will really love that.”
Here’s the official synopsis that came 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.”
Brad Dourif once again provides Chucky’s voice, while his daughter, Fiona Dourif, will be reprising her Curse of Chucky role. Also returning is Curse star Summer H. Howell.
