First look at the new Chucky

Chucky the killer doll gets a makeover in the first image of Orion Pictures and the restart of the MGM A child's game horror film franchise. The film has just started production this week, with Norwegian director Lars Klevberg calling the images of a screenplay Sleeping dogs and Quantum break video game writer Tyler Burton Smith.

L & # 39; original A child's game was released in 1988 and put an … unusual twist on the slasher formula – making his killer a children's doll, possessed by the mind of murderer Charles "Chucky" Lee Ray (Brad Dourif). Following the cult success of the first film, the A child's game the movies began to go further and further into the territory of horror comedy by embracing the innate ridicule of their premise and the character of Chucky himself. Don Manicini has scripted the seven installments up to now and has even achieved the three most recent ones (especially in 2017). Cult of Chucky), but does not participate creatively in the reboot.

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Plaza Aubrey (Legion) stars in the A child's game restart as a mother giving her son (CurfewGabriel Bateman) the evil doll in question, "unaware of its more sinister nature" (as stated in the official synopsis of the plot). Look at the picture below for your first look at the new Chucky in the movie.

While a voice actor for the new Chucky has not been found yet, it has already been reported that Dourif will not take over the role of A child's game to restart. The actor and Mancini focus instead their efforts on obtaining a A child's game TV series launched for Universal – the studio that holds all the rights except the first film of the A child's game franchise.

Klevberg and Smith, meanwhile, are about to make a name for themselves in the horror genre. The old has already directed the horror thriller Polaroid, which was picked up by Netflix this month as a result of the collapse of its original distributor, The Weinstein Company, last year. Meanwhile, Smith served as a screenwriter on the Five nights at Freddy video game movie adaptation that is currently advancing at Blumhouse (get out, Split), in addition to A child's game.

Nevertheless, the restart seems still to be a precarious enterprise, especially since none of the main creative forces A child's game franchise (Mancini and Dourif) involved. If nothing else, however, at least A child's game fans can console themselves knowing that the new Chucky (for the most part) look like his old self.

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the A child's game reboot has no official release date yet.

Source: MGM / Orion Pictures

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