Franchise star Jennifer Tilly recently teased that “more Chucky is in the works” in the wake of the television series coming to an end after three seasons, but is the killer doll plotting a return to the big screen or the small screen? Franchise creator Don Mancini has revealed more at Steel City Con in Pennsylvania this weekend, and we’ve got the important details for ya.
Don Mancini revealed at the con this weekend that he’s currently writing a new Chucky MOVIE, and the film will harken back to the approach of his 2013 film Curse of Chucky. The sixth installment in the franchise initially positioned itself as something of a full-on reboot before firmly connecting itself to the previous installments. It also brought back the horror vibes of the original Child’s Play movies, while the more campy and comedic aspects of Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky weren’t fully embraced again until the Chucky TV series.
Don Mancini directed both Curse of Chucky and 2017’s Cult of Chucky, both of which paved the way for the three season television series. There was a remake of the original Child’s Play crammed in there around the same time, but Mancini had nothing to do with that one.
According to Mancini’s comments at Steel City, his next Chucky movie will not only throw back to those Curse of Chucky franchise reset vibes, but the plan is for the movie to also connect itself to the events of the television series and previous movies. Mancini is big on continuity, with all of his movies and the show existing in an impressively connected single timeline.
Bloody Disgusting can confirm all of these details, while also noting that we’ve heard Mancini’s intention with the new Chucky movie is to make it SCARY, throwing back particularly to the tone of Curse of Chucky as well as the first two original Child’s Play movies. The plan is to also bring this new Chucky movie to THEATERS, rather than straight to television or digital.
There are technically eight Child’s Play/Chucky movies at the time, counting the remake that exists in its own universe, and Mancini’s new script would bring the franchise up to nine total movies. Only eight of them exist within the Don Mancini Chucky Universe, however.
Stay tuned for more on Don Mancini’s new Chucky movie as we learn it.