Chucky creator offers details of the killer doll series

Entertainment Weekly

EW reveals the first look at the Chucky poster and teaser in an interview with franchise creator Don Mancini, who went into detail of the USA and Syfy series premiering Oct. 12. "The main character is a 14-year-old gay boy who's bullied and sort of lost after the recent death of his mother," says Mancini. "He's a young artist (making) sculptures with doll parts. He finds Chucky at a yard sale and buys him, but it turns out that he gets much more than he bargained for." Mancini adds that the new Chucky doll is modeled after Child's Play 2's Chucky. "Over the years, I've heard that the consensus fan favorite among all the movies is Child's Play 2," says Mancini. "I think one of the reasons for that is how Chucky looked in that movie and how the late director John Lafia, who passed away last year, shot Chucky. Our goal with the series was to bring Chucky's look precisely back to that. Tony Gardner and Peter Chevako (special effects artists responsible for creating the show's puppets) have done a great job. I think fans are really going to love that."