![]() ![]() What was it like first connecting with Don? Because he is the thread that brings everyone together he hired your father to do the puppetry on The Seed of Chucky, and he has become great friends with a lot of the people he has worked with on set. He wrote the first Child’s Play film and through everything else Don has been there as either a writer or director or producer. GARDNER: Yeah, basically the latter of that, because I definitely didn’t go in with the intention of thinking of a feature down the road, but it wasn’t until I saw the films’ reception at film festivals, and Chucky fans really seemed to be gravitating towards that personal aspect, and I had so much footage on my hard drives already, I was like, "The basis for a feature is already here, and I should just see what I can do and if I could create anything with this."ĭon Mancini is a Don by name and a don by nature he is the godfather of this. Was it always the thought that you would make a feature like Living with Chucky and the short was the precursor? Or did you do the short, it turned out well, and you thought there is more you could dive into here? Your short film, The Doll House, was the start of your exploration into your father’s work and the Chucky world that he helped create, but it also explores the different family ties that this franchise has where there is not only yourself and your father, but also Fiona and Brad Dourif. So that was the first inkling of– I didn’t realize the capacity of how big this is until I was on the set of the Cult of Chucky re-shoots that were in LA, because at the time I had already done the short documentary of this film, or I was filming it, so I had gotten to know a few people already, and it was really intimate, and Don (Mancini) and Fiona (Dourif) and my dad were there, and just getting to hang out with them, I realized that I went down the right path, because this is definitely a family, on and off-screen. I grew up in a small town, and I was the only kid into horror movies and things like that, so my dad and I went to a horror convention together when I was in high school and people were asking him for his autograph, and I was like, “Oh! The horror community is this vast community of people who are super dedicated." I love my dad, and I think his job is the coolest and his work is the coolest, but you don’t really realize the impact it has on other people. ![]() Child's Play was released in 1988, and it was a smash hit, spawning amount of sequels, a reboot, and a TV show.KYRA ELISE GARDNER: I probably started to notice that later on in high school.Hasbro’s 1985 My Buddy doll was made before the movie started filming, therefore changing the name of the doll to Chucky.Steven Spielberg was already making a movie titled Batteries Not Included.Chucky then finds out that if he kills Andy, then he will be asleep forever while Chucky will be immortal and alive all the time. While Andy is asleep, Chucky wreaks havoc. ![]() Chucky would have been hidden in mystery until act 3 of the film, where he says one-liners as he murders people including Maggie, Andy's teacher, and his mother Karen. The original script also toyed with the audience a bit longer, making them wonder if Andy was the killer instead of Chucky. The original idea for Chucky was that he was part of Andy's complicated emotions instead of a toy possessed by serial killer Charles Lee Ray. ![]()
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