Child’s Play Sequel Filming This Fall, Going Straight to Video
Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on June 27, 2012
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Has the long-gestating remake/reboot of Child’s Play morphed into a sequel? And more shocking, a direct-to-video sequel? Moviehole is reporting that a fifth sequel in the Child’s Play franchise, dubbed Curse of Chucky, will begin shooting in September, with the aim of going straight to video (presumably sometime in 2013). Series creator Don Mancini, who has written all five of the films to date (and also directing the last entry, Seed of Chucky), has been planning a darker, more horror-centric reboot of the franchise for years, but it seems he’s decided to use that same approach for the sequel, which will reportedly eschew the increasingly campy, comedic angle of the previous two films by abandoning the entire “Chucky as family man” angle altogether.
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