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Chucky Finally Being Rebuilt by MGM?
While already reported last year, there appears to be some “fresh” development on the long-planned Child’s Play remake.
While there is nothing “new” to report per se, Brad Dourif is still marked as a lock for the voice of “Chucky,” a Good Guy Doll possessed by the trapped soul of notorious killer Charles Lee Ray.
As before, franchise creator Don Mancini is still pegged to write and is “in talks” to direct. We reached out to him for confirmation.
Produced once again by David Kirschner, it appears that MGM, not Universal, will be behind the reboot.
There’s NO start date or fresh information, so I’d gather that this means the studio is revisiting the idea of making the film. More info as it comes in.
From director David Ayer (Suicide Squad, Fury), Heart of the Beast will hit theaters on September 25 from Paramount Pictures, and GQ shares first look images this week.
In the film, a former Army Special Forces soldier and his retired combat dog attempt to return to civilization after suffering a catastrophic accident deep in the Alaskan wilderness.
Brad Pitt stars in the survival thriller Heart of the Beast, with J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) and Anna Lambe (“True Detective: Night Country”) also starring.
Cameron Alexander wrote the screenplay for Heart of the Beast. Academy Award winner Mauro Fiore (Avatar, Spider-Man: No Way Home) serves as director of photography.
“I’ll just be really honest: it made me cry,” Ayer tells GQ of the script. “Reading the script, it’s like a tone poem, in a sense. It’s so sparse—just a guy, a dog, mountains, and the calamities and triumphs that unfold, but what’s fascinating about the script is they’re constantly rescuing each other. It’s not like a guy and his pet—they felt like co-equals in this story. Brad wanted to be No. 2 on the call sheet, and rightly so. There was just something profound in the script. It felt like a study in grief, in healing, and of the human heart. So I had to do it.”
Ayer promises, “Don’t worry, the dog lives.”
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