![]() ![]() During the interview, he shared stories about his journey from An American Tail to a killer doll, getting Child’s Play greenlit, how he never even thought about a sequel, let alone everything that’s come since the first film’s release, balancing the beauty and laughter of life with the horror that exists, how the first big reveal of Chucky came about, the fine-tuning the film went through prior to its release, how Dourif ultimately came to voice the sarcastic doll, and all the wild merchandise that’s available.Ĭollider: As a producer, is it more nerve-wracking to keep a franchise going, like with Chucky, or is it more nerve-wracking to come back to something many years later, like with Hocus Pocus, and try to find the success and the magic again?ĭAVID KIRSCHNER: Both of those. When producer David Kirschner joined the project, inspired by a lifelong fear of dolls that started with an episode of The Twilight Zone, he made some changes to the Blood Buddy script before John Lafia did a rewrite and Tom Holland signed on to direct, and they were off and running on the start of the hugely popular franchise.Ĭollider recently got the opportunity to chat 1-on-1 with Kirschner (who has also produced the Hocus Pocus films) about the evolution of Chucky, from that first script and his original drawings of what the doll should look like to everything that’s come since. What started as a script by Don Mancini called Blood Buddy, about a doll that came with a pin so that you could become its blood buddy, turned into a tale about a struggling mother ( Catherine Hicks) unknowingly gifting her son ( Alex Vincent) a Good Guy doll that a killer ( Brad Dourif) on the verge of death used voodoo to transfer his soul into. ![]()
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