The concept for the re-imagined character began with discussions with the film’s Norwegian director, Lars Klevberg, who found a nontraditional inspiration for a freaky horror villain: his 3-year-old child.
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So, we kind of took the corporate polish off it, and kept removing parts of it and made it more and more simplistic.” Chucky from the 1988 movie “Child’s Play” ©United Artists/Everett Collection “Think about how that logo got simpler over time and now you can barely even tell it’s a mermaid. “We kind of thought of it as the Starbucks logo,” Masters says. “His costume is still striped, and he’s still got the suspenders.”īut, he adds, “There’s other stuff that we definitely wanted to make sure that we weren’t too close to.” “There’s definitely some respect paid toward the original design,” says Todd Masters, president of MastersFX, the firm that created the doll. So, while you’ll recognize aspects of the toy that gave you nightmares, he’s really Chucky 2.0. Now, for a more technologically advanced era, Chucky’s bloodlust is a factory defect.
In the 1988 original, a voodoo curse sent the soul of a Chicago murderer into a children’s toy which went on a revenge killing spree. The scary film isn’t just another tweaked reboot, but a completely different take on the iconic character. Yes, the ginger-haired, maniacal doll is back in theaters for the first time since 2004’s “Seed of Chucky” in the new movie “Child’s Play.” (The last two entries in the franchise were direct-to-video.) This weekend, while Woody and Buzz are making you cry, Chucky will be making ’em die.
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