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Glen Hiding in Plain Sight in the ‘Cult of Chucky’ Trailer?
Well this sure is interesting.
Over on the official (verified) Chucky Facebook page last night, a video was uploaded along with a caption teasing the return of a character to the Child’s Play universe.
“Someone has come back to the world of Chucky,” the video was captioned. “Any theories on his return?”
We already know that Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) will be back in Cult of Chucky, and the aforementioned video makes it clear that it’s not Andy who’s being referred to. When you hit play on the video, it’s a looped clip from last week’s trailer. The Chucky doll opens its eyes, and a man sitting on a couch has a horrified reaction…
This character is prominently featured in the Cult of Chucky trailer, and a quick look over on IMDb reveals that he’s played by Adam Hurtig. Oddly enough, Hurtig played the role of Officer Stanton in Curse of Chucky… a character who had his throat slit in the final act by Tiffany/Jennifer Tilly.
Is Officer Stanton somehow still alive? Or is Hurtig actually playing a different character in Cult of Chucky? Well get this. According to Hurtig’s IMDb page (and yes, we realize those can and often have been edited by fans), he’s playing GLEN in Cult of Chucky.
Similarly, red-haired actress Allison Dawn Doiron is listed as playing Rachel / GLENDA.
It was rumored even before the Cult of Chucky trailer hit that Glen and Glenda were going to make their return in the new film, and with Don Mancini working hard to tie ALL of the Child’s Play films together, that seems like a pretty safe bet. As we saw at the end of Seed of Chucky, the spirits residing within the Glen/Glenda doll had inhabited the bodies of a young boy and a young girl; the events of that film were set years before this year’s new sequel, meaning that Glen and Glenda would presumably now be young adults.
Even if the IMDb listings for Hurtig and Doiron were edited by a fan (and they probably were), last night’s official Facebook post sure seems to confirm the rumor. Both actors have red hair and certainly look the parts, so we’re feeling pretty good about speculating that they are in fact playing Glen and Glenda in Cult of Chucky.
What other theory could the official FB page possibly be hinting at?
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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