Jennifer Tilly and Chucky in SEED OF CHUCKY (2004).
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CHUCKY Getting a Remake?

The last time we saw Chucky, he was having "father" issues with his psychotic son in 2004's SEED OF CHUCKY. So, where do we go from here? Backwards judging by what the original CHILD'S PLAY producer David Kirschner had to say to Shock Til You Drop. The man behind the original film nearly 20 years ago is thinking about a remake of Chucky's origin. Here's what he said...

We're discussing it with Don Mancini, who has written all of them with us from the beginning," Kirschner told us. "The next one we're going to do is we're going back and remaking the first one and even pushing it further and making a very terrifying version of the first one, which is pretty scary as it is."

"We haven't come up with anybody yet," he replied when asked whether they were looking at any of today's cutting-edge horror directors. "We haven't really discussed that. We've just been working on stories, so I think that'll be a fun process when we get there."

Question: Why the remake?

"Look at 'Halloween'," he quickly responded. "It's kind of commerce to keep the franchise going, and another reason to go see it. For me, it's exciting, because the first one was really scary and then from there, we kind of… my favorites are 1 and 4. I love 4, it really makes me laugh and I think Jennifer Tilly is so great, but just the idea of going back to where we were the first time around and I think for me, it's almost 30 years later for me as a filmmaker from where I started to now, and the idea of taking some skill that maybe I didn't possess then and putting it towards the next film, I think could be exciting."

They don't know if Brad Dourif will be involved with this remake but they are keeping it as an animatronic doll just like the previous installments. The remake may have more details of the evil soul behind the doll, Charles Lee Ray.