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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Child’s Play

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On the day of November 9th, 1988, director Tom Holland and writer Don Mancini gave us our first dose of everyone’s favorite good guy. Now, 6 sequels and 26 years later, the franchise is as strong as ever with another sequel on the way to follow up The Curse of Chucky.

Today we are going to look at some interesting morsels of  Chucky trivia, Some of these facts may be known amongst horror film addicts and others may be new to you. Either way, we are saluting you Chucky as our favorite killer doll franchise. 

 

1. Chucky’s name

We all know Chucky’s full name is Charles Lee Ray. The name derives from three notorious murderers: Charles Manson, Lee Harvey Oswald, and James Earl Ray. In the 1960s, Manson orchestrated a series of murders carried out by his “followers”. Lee Harvey Oswald is the sniper who assassinated President John F. Kennedy. A jury found James Earl Ray guilty in the shooting death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

2. Don Mancini wanted Quintin Tarantino to play Redman’s role in Seed Of Chucky

Mancini thought it was important for a celebrity to play himself and his dream was Quentin Tarantino. Mancini wrote him a letter that promised him hours on end of making out with Jennifer Tilly and an awesome death at the hands of Chucky. He, of course, turned the role down. In which case, enter Redman. I gotta be honest… That would’ve been badass to see Quentin in that role.

3. In the original screenplay for Childs Play, Chucky was the manifestation of Andy’s Rage.

In the original version of the film, Chucky would do Andy‘s subconscious bidding. The original idea was to have Good Guy dolls that had latex skin and blood. If the kids ripped the latex skin, they could go out and buy Official Good Guy bandages. Being the lonely kid that he was, Andy would make a blood pact with the doll, and then comes to life whenever he goes to sleep. Chucky would take out anyone Andy saw as an enemy or a threat.

4. Brad Dourif preparing for his voice role.

Before recording his lines, Dourif ran frantically through the studio, hurling himself against walls and shrieking in a frenzy. The intensity he summoned while delivering his lines was so great that he fainted afterward on more than one occasion. That’s some commitment there Brad. We salute you.

5. Instead of one Chucky, there could have been an army of Good Guys.

After Chucky is killed in Child’s Play 2, we see his blood drip into a vat of plastic that would ultimately recreate the Good Guy doll possessed by Charles Lee Ray. Well, Mancini thought it make sense that all of the Good Guy dolls made from contaminated plastic would be killer Chucky dolls. His intention was to have an army of Chucky dolls on a rampage. Financial restraints and studio interference prevented this from happening.

Fans and myself are waiting to see what Mancini has in store for us next in the upcoming sequel!

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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening

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Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.

Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.

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Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.

Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.

Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.

The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.

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Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.

These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:

According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”

Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.

Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.

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Trailer for ‘The Exorcism’ Has Russell Crowe Possessed

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The latest exorcism movie is about to drop this summer. It’s aptly titled The Exorcism and it stars Academy Award winner turned B-movie savant Russell Crowe. The trailer dropped today and by the looks of it, we are getting a possession movie that takes place on a movie set.

Just like this year’s recent demon-in-media-space film Late Night With the Devil, The Exorcism happens during a production. Although the former takes place on a live network talk show, the latter is on an active sound stage. Hopefully, it won’t be entirely serious and we’ll get some meta chuckles out of it.

The film will open in theaters on June 7, but since Shudder also acquired it, it probably won’t be long after that until it finds a home on the streaming service.

Crowe plays, “Anthony Miller, a troubled actor who begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film. His estranged daughter, Lee (Ryan Simpkins), wonders if he’s slipping back into his past addictions or if there’s something more sinister at play. The film also stars Sam Worthington, Chloe Bailey, Adam Goldberg and David Hyde Pierce.”

Crowe did see some success in last year’s The Pope’s Exorcist mostly because his character was so over-the-top and infused with such comical hubris it bordered on parody. We will see if that is the route actor-turned-director Joshua John Miller takes with The Exorcism.

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