As we’ve seen countless times over the years, you can’t keep a recognizable horror franchise down for too long, unless of course the rights are caught up in legal red tape, which is why we haven’t seen Jason Voorhees for over a decade at this point. Halloween may have reignited interest in a property that had been running on fumes for a while, but the reaction to the return of another 1980s horror icon was a lot more muted.
The Child’s Play remake did manage to turn a profit due to the low $10 million budget, but a worldwide box office haul of $44 million wasn’t exactly anything to write home about. The movie did manage to score decent enough reviews, with Mark Hamill drawing widespread praise for yet another impeccable voice performance as murderous doll Chucky, but any talk of a sequel was dependent on commercial success.
However, we’ve now heard from our sources – the same ones that told us Ben Affleck would be returning as Batman in The Flash a month before it was officially confirmed – that a Child’s Play sequel is currently in active development. There’s no word yet on any returning cast or crew members, but the studio remain keen to move forward on further installments despite the middling reception to the remake.
It isn’t clear either how this impacts or affects the small screen spinoff Chucky that hails from franchise creator Don Mancini and is set to air on Syfy next year, if at all. Last year’s version of Child’s Play might have scored the best reviews since the 1988 original, but even with 30 years of ticket price inflation it still only made less than a million dollars more at the box office, with the jury still out whether audiences will have much interest in further adventures.
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