MGM’s upcoming Child’s Play reboot is currently getting a lot of backlash, but a reset of this series could’ve happened a lot sooner if Universal had stuck with their original idea of giving the demonic doll the remake treatment.
To offer some context, these plans were being thrown around in the long, Chucky-free period between 2004’s Seed of Chucky and 2013’s Curse of Chucky, at a time when horror remakes – at least from a studio perspective – were all the rage. But while the likes of 2009’s Friday the 13th and 2010’s A Nightmare on Elm Street did well enough on a commercial level, the fans weren’t too pleased with the movies they paid to see.
At a Q&A session for Screamfest, Child’s Play creator Don Mancini recalled how Universal cancelled their plans after seeing the unfavorable response to these previous reboots, freeing the writer-director...
To offer some context, these plans were being thrown around in the long, Chucky-free period between 2004’s Seed of Chucky and 2013’s Curse of Chucky, at a time when horror remakes – at least from a studio perspective – were all the rage. But while the likes of 2009’s Friday the 13th and 2010’s A Nightmare on Elm Street did well enough on a commercial level, the fans weren’t too pleased with the movies they paid to see.
At a Q&A session for Screamfest, Child’s Play creator Don Mancini recalled how Universal cancelled their plans after seeing the unfavorable response to these previous reboots, freeing the writer-director...
- 10/17/2018
- by David Pountain
- We Got This Covered
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