BREAKING MOVIE/TV NEWS

Sunday, March 27, 2011

MGM Dolls Up For "Child's Play"

According to reports, MGM is rebooting their "Child's Play" movie franchise, with a screenplay by Don Mancini, the original writer of all the previous "Child's Play" features.

"Child's Play" will start production after MGM reboots "Robocop" and "Poltergeist", with a
ctor Brad Dourif ("Deadwood") returning to voice the demonically-possessed doll 'Chucky'.

The original "Child's Play", released in 1988, was directed by Tom Holland, starring Catherine Hicks and Chris Sarandon.

"...In Chicago, Illinois, while being chased by 'Detective Mike Norris' (Sarandon), 'Charles Lee Ray', a killer aka 'The Lakeshore Strangler' (Dourif), is shot and mortally wounded. Before dying, Ray takes cover inside a toy store, finding boxes of talking 'Good Guy' dolls,. Using a voodoo ritual, Ray transfers his soul into one of the dolls..."

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