LIVING DOLL

TO QUOTE THE MINIATURE maniac himself, you don’t fuck with the Chuck. A 2019 reboot of the Child’s Play franchise – which has seen seven films since 1988 – could have derailed creator and writer Don Mancini’s long-term vision for a TV series.

“When that first reared its head, it was concerning for me, and for all of us who work on Team Universal Chucky,” he says of the Mark Hamill-starring outing, which saw killer Chucky reimagined as a malfunctioning robot doll. “It was vexing, because here are these people, who we didn’t know, who just sort of grabbed a piece of what we had done and ran off on another tangent with it. So it was concerning, because if that movie had been really successful, it could have put a crimp in my plans.”

Those plans have been developing ever since 2017’s . This new series for Syfy/USA Network directly addresses where things were left hanging in his last, proper big-screen outing, something