Mark Hamill ( Reboot film and Robot Chicken)Įd Gale (in-suit performer films 1, 2 and 4) ĭebbie Lee Carrington (in-suit performer Cult of Chucky) īrock Winkless (puppetry from Child's Play to Bride of Chucky)
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But he’ll need all the voodoo he can do to survive Annabelle’s demonic magic.Chucky as he appears in the Chucky television seriesįiona Dourif (possessed Cult of Chucky and the TV series)ĭavid Kohlsmith (young Charles TV series) It’ll be hard to convince moviegoers that your remake has something new to offer or can stand out from the crowd when it’s just one of three movies with near-identical gimmicks, including one that’s part of the biggest R-rated horror franchise of all time.
This summer may turn into a classic “rip-off, don’t remake” lesson, as the “We’ve got the IP!” remake gets smushed (or at least undercut) by a slightly similar hook from a comparatively “new” horror franchise. But if Annabelle doesn’t gut Chucky, then Brahms will probably finish him off.īy coincidental scheduling (and this is presuming that Toy Story 4 doesn’t feature scary toys as part of its hook), Child’s Play will be a remake facing off against two sequels to franchises that broke out at least partially because they were offering something new and different. Yes, the Chucky flick will probably be finished by then anyway.
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So even if by some miracle Child’s Play survives Annabelle Comes Home, it’s going to have to deal with another movie with the same hook on July 28. Even if Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark doesn’t feature a scary toy/evil doll (and I don’t remember every story in Alvin Schwartz’s trilogy of terror), Child’s Play will have to eventually face Brahms: The Boy 2, a sequel to STX Entertainment’s inexplicably leggy horror romp that’s also about a doll which brings terror and torment. I see a similar fate for Orion’s horror remake when it faces a sequel to a “new” and currently popular franchise. Frankenstein dropped 67% (a huge fall in 1994) against the $36 million launch (a record for an R-rated and non-summer debut) of Interview with the Vampire. Hellboy II dropped 71% in weekend two against The Dark Knight’s record-breaking $158 million debut weekend back in 2008. Point being, Child’s Play won’t even be the biggest killer doll movie in the month of June.Įven if the film opens well, it’s probably going to be a replay of when The Dark Knight opened on the second weekend of Hellboy II: The Golden Army (or when Interview with the Vampire opened on Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein’s second weekend). So, in a skewed way, this is the closest thing we’ll get to “ The Conjuring goes Avengers,” but that’s for another day. The third Annabelle is essentially a kinda-sorta Conjuring movie too since it features Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as the Warrens as the title doll goes after their daughter. Vera Farmiga in Annabelle Comes Home (2019) New Line Yup, despite a cute attempt by Orion to open their evil doll movie on the same day as Toy Story 4, it may have backfired when New Line moved the third Annabelle movie (and sixth Conjuring flick) into the pre-July 4th-weekend slot. Yet it’s going to be hell convincing folks that Child’s Play is worth the time/money when Annabelle Comes Home opens just one week later. The key to making a remake like this work is to sell something that appeals to audiences with no vested interest in the IP.
Yet, oddly enough, three of them involve evil dolls. It’s one of nine horror movies between Brightburn on May 24 and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark on August 9. Because, in a random coincidence, Child’s Play is just one of three killer doll movies opening between June 21 and July 28. And yeah, the success or failure of this remake isn’t whether it pleases the fans (who are mostly opposed on principle) but whether it looks decent to general audiences as just a flashy fright flick about a killer doll. I don’t know how many otherwise uninterested moviegoers are going to seek this one out because Hamill is voicing the villain, but I’m more interested in the film because he’s in it than I would be if he were not. That’s slightly unexpected, but I guess they may want something for a third trailer or a different piece of marketing over the next two months.
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