Child's Play: The TV series
 

Yep....ole Chucky's getting his own tv series...for some reason. Apparantly it links up to whatever happened at the end of the most recent movie. First season will be 8 hour long eps. Article doesn't say the channel tho.

http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/92...avid-kirschner

It's gotta be STARZ! or something like that, next to "Ash VS Evil Dead" and such.

Eh... I dunno. It could kind of work. I'd have preferred a big final movie, with Andy and the girl from part 2 really ending Chucky once and for all than something protracted like this, but it could be fun, too.

I hope it stars Jennifer Tilly's tiddiez.

If Freddy Krueger could get a TV series, and Friday the 13th could get a TV series, and Scream could get a TV series, then why not, right?

Oh my gosh I love Chucky. Im so excited! I never expected this.

It makes sense with how the last one ended.

Werne't those films once blamed for inspring children to deadly violence many years ago?

So it's Syfy. Forget about any R-rated stuff. Very disappointing.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/syfy-get...cky-tv-series/

Not being rated R is really not an issue. I’ve seen some pretty violent/gory stuff on SyFy (or Sci-Fi for those who prefer the old way).

The Chucky movies aren’t known to be gorefests anyway. At this point it’s about story.

I’m glad it’s on regular tv. I was concerned it’d be some streaming or premium channel exclusive.

It's not about gore. They can work around that. The thing is that Chucky has a hilariously potty mouth. And now that can't be a thing.

Oh that. Some shows allow cussing. Pretty much anything but the F word nowadays. Even that’s allowed in some cases I think.

Some programming gets uncensored reruns late at night.

If it's a show where Chucky can't say "you can't f*** with the Chuck" then don't bother.

Though I'm reasonably certain it is ending up at SyFy because the other ones didn't want it.

Ok I’m pretty sure you don’t seriously mean the whole show is pointless if he can’t use the F word or that phrase (which if I remember correctly was only ever said in part 3)

How do you know nobody else wanted it?

A show can be good without dropping the F bomb every 5 minutes. This is nitpicking just to do it.

As a guy who enjoyed the trilogy, i feel this franchise has gone down the crapper no thanks to Don Mancini who ran out of ideas after 3 as i felt the story in 3 ended the story well as Chucky died in the fan and the other 4 films after that is a spin-off of Chucky and i don't like Tiffany and Glenn as with the last 4 films, they have dislikable characters with no personality or charisma (unlike the first 3 which had likable characters), poor writing (CP 3 has faults but better written than Bride/Seed/Curse/Cult as CP 2 has a well written script as i feel CP 2 is better than the first film) with Chucky saying dumbass lines like "Compressed? do you know what i think that means", unfunny attempts at humor, horrible CGI in Curse/Cult, that chili scene in Curse which me and my youtube friends Ramboraph4life and Ocpcommunications (if anyone seen their rant on the film) loath and don't get me started on the "teasing us on what should had been the movie" ending in Curse where it has Andy about to blow Chucky's head off with a gun to all the way to all the way to the stupid cheatcode thing especially Chucky being in his daughter's body at the end of Cult to all that.

I mean i felt this franchise has been dead for a long time after 3 as Bride was the beginning of the end of the franchise, Seed i paid to see in theaters and MY GOD it was a horrible crappy mess no thanks to an amateur hack director like Don Mancini as he really killed this franchise even with the last two with his horrible lazy writing and lazy direction. I feel he is to the franchise, what Kathleen Kennedy is to Star Wars, both need to go.

But a TV show and a remake? stop beating this long dead zombiefied horse and shoot it in the head so it can rest in peace. I mean, it's time to let this franchise die and rest in peace already and do new horror icons/franchises.

No, not nitpicking. This is Chucky. He says it every other line.

4 was fun, even if it doesn't hold up particularly well now. 1-3 still play great. 5 was one of the worst movies ever made. 6 was surprisingly good, legit scary like the first one. 7 (the latest) isn't bad but has a lot going on.

Andrew, you simply can't reason with people who think that "different" and "good" can peacefully co-exist.

You and I get it. That's about all we can hope for.

I agree Seed was the worst of the series. It was ok as a parody, which Don Mancini has said he really likes using satire. That’s why he went harder in that direction.

I don’t mind it being part of the canon though. Glen and Glenda are supposed to be in this. He mentioned them regarding the tv show.

I really don’t mind if they must tone down the cussing. I don’t see it being much more limited. Except for maybe the F word.

I doubt it lasting very long. Don obviously wants to do multiple storylines which is cool but after thier done it’s bound to go back to movies. Unless it’s really successful and SyFy wants to keep going.

Or, it's because I understand why they won't be saying f*ck every other line. There are plenty of horror shows/movies that don't do that and are successful.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/screenr...ring-syfy/amp/

Chucky WILL still be dropping F-bombs.

What?! I'm outraged. When will there finally be a horror show about evil murder dolls that the whole family can watch?

Well, with Chucky I absolutely draw a firm line. It's Chucky. "B-b-b-but some horror shows get away with no F bombs!" No, f*** that, that's those shows. Again, this is Chucky. This is what he does. It's his whole shtick and has been for 30 years.

Sweet.

Well I was right. I’d be surprised if they did not allow since it’s already been done. Not that it made a huge difference anyway.

I wonder how often they’ll use it.

An update after 2 years:

https://www.darkhorizons.com/chucky-...sets-its-cast/

They better still have Andy and his foster sister from Child's Play 2... that's how the last one ended, with them about to really kick ass.

Also...

"Meanwhile, the arrival of enemies and allies from Chucky’s past threatens to expose the truth behind the killings, as well as the demon doll’s untold origins as a seemingly ordinary child who somehow became this notorious monster."

Huh? We already know enough about Charles Lee Ray. "A seemingly ordinary child"? What are they talking about? Was there something particularly important about his childhood we don't know about? He was a criminal who knew a bit of voodoo... that seemed like enough.

I was hoping Fiona Dourif would be in it too. She/Charles rejoined Tiffany.

I’m sure Chucky’s childhood can be more interesting than we know. Why did he get into voodoo?

Because that black dude and the first movie got him into it, no?

We don’t really know what their relationship was like or why he got interested in voodoo in the first place. He used it for evil purposes and that’s basically it.

Yeah, but like.... do we really care? Like do we really give a **** in the grand scheme of things?

Sometimes 'murderous lowlife trained with some dude to learn voodoo' is enough, especially when we care more about him as a killer doll than when he was human.

It feels like every last thing in anything needs to be explained anymore. I'm surprised there isn't some Star Wars series or whatever dealing with how the Jedi and the Force ever came to be, cause you know... we have to know the story behind everything. Every last detail.

This franchise has gone this long without a continuity reboot and has reintroduced people from his past. It makes sense to give him more backstory when his life as a doll gets deeper. Plus he’s the main character.

Ahhhhh, excellent news! They are living up to the promise the ending of the last movie dangled. Everybody's back. Andy. The foster sister from 2. Dourif's daughter from the last couple.

https://ew.com/tv/chucky-alex-vincen...UngW9TA1KYY4GM

Very pleasing.

She was quite a babe back then, how is she lookin' nowadays?

Better than I'd have expected.

More info:

https://www.darkhorizons.com/chucky-...story-details/

I'm looking forward to this, but I'm also worried at how quick Syfy will be to cancel it because they don't keep shows around for very long.

Sounds and looks great.

I know more movies were still planned but possibly even during the show? Wonder how that would be.

Dumping out new Chucky movies while the series is still running seems like overkill to me.

It depends how many dolls there are out there with his split soul. It could work but might be confusing for those that don’t consistently follow the series.

I could see a movie that takes place with a new kid and no ties to his past or old characters. Just a stand-alone movie in the same world.

I had a great idea they could have done with the 2019 remake instead...put it in the same universe and brand Buddi a toy revival of the Good Guy. Keep the movie the same (change character names, can’t be duplicates) so we get 2 different killer Good Guys...supernatural Chucky vs A.I. Buddi.

Chucky Can Drop 10 F-Bombs Per Episode In Child’s Play Show
https://screenrant.com/chucky-show-l...-syfy-details/

He’s never said the F word 10 times in 1 movie.

I’m not surprised it’s allowed but I’m surprised it’s allowed so much.

Saying it 10 times in a row once would be funny though.

That'd mean it's a shared universe, which really wouldn't work for the Child's Play remake. For one, that'd mean that everyone would know about the events of Child's Play 1-7 when nobody did in the remake. Nobody is going to build a new generation of Chucky dolls after those.

Also, the Buddi version of Chucky was a one off thing. A computer glitch. There wouldn't be like a shared consciousness that inhabits another Buddi doll.

You’re right about nobody knowing in the remake. Ok besides changing the names they would have needed to touch on that.

It’s too late now anyway but why wouldn’t they revive the Good Guy? That was how Part 3 happened. They restarted production and ignored Andy’s story. Which was more recent within the movie world.

It is far fetched they’d revive a toy linked to even more ongoing killings but maybe in movie-logic.

I was thinking about the other dolls. We can assume most are from online sellers but Cult mentions Hot Topic. If a retail store sells them...are they also out of production? Who’s supplying Hot Topic with working condition Good Guys?

I know it’s half meant to be a joke but I don’t know if they thought it through.

As for the remake it’s very likely Buddi copied/transferred himself into another doll. His whole power was wireless connectivity and hacking devices. They show another one with red eyes at the very end.

True... though the fact that they ignored Andy's story (and it wasn't JUST Andy's story, think about that whole family in 2 and the teacher and such) and went back into production willy nilly in 3 (and then after 3 all the press about everyone talking about a Chucky doll massacring a whole boot camp?)... do you think that makes it more or less likely that they would try it again a third time? There's no way.

It's kind of like the Jurassic Park/World thing. That they'd reopen the park years later and just slightly change the name was pretty unlikely (like, who on earth is going to insure that park?)... OK, fine. But would they reopen it AGAIN?

Eh. I guess so. I just don't think anyone's particularly chomping at the bit to see that.

I guess it'd be kind of neat if in a future Chucky movie or episode we get, like, the equivalent of Godzilla swatting away/killing "Zilla," in a 20 second scene.