Nothing kills a franchise faster than a bad recasting. Thankfully for fans of the Chucky horror franchise, Academy Award nominee Brad Dourif says he’s sticking to the titular role. He first played the fictitious serial killer Charles Lee Ray in 1988’s Child’s Play.
In the film, his soul possesses a Good Guy doll that Dourif has voiced in every installment of the franchise since. (Sans, the 2019 remake, which had Mark Hamill take over the role, but since that takes place in its own universe, we’ll be forgetting about it for now.)
In April, we reported that Chucky mainstay Don Mancini is looking to write and direct a newer, darker installment. So fans are all atwitter about what the future may hold. At Spooky Empire in Orlando, Florida, this past weekend, Dourif told the crowd, “Nobody’s doing Chucky but me.”
While Dourif didn’t explicitly say he’d be Chucky in Mancini’s upcoming movie. Given their long working relationship, we think it’s safe to say he will remain in the role with Mancini in charge.
The new project is said to be stylistically closer to Curse of Chucky and the first 2 Child’s Play films, directed by Tom Holland and John Lafia, respectively. While it will still use events from the TV show and previous Mancini-written films as canon. It will be dialing way back on the campy tone we saw taken to the extreme (and that’s not a criticism) in the series.
We’ll keep you posted on updates about the new Chucky film as the project develops. You can watch Dourif’s comments below:
