It was just a way to sell products,” he said. “The idea was that when you’re playing with the doll, if you played too rough with it the latex skin would break and then this blood would start to seep out, so you had to go out and buy official Good Guy band-aids to put on. With thousands of toys being developed for children and spreading like wildfire to other consumer sectors (like food and technology), Mancini realized how marketers would do anything and everything to sell to kids, to make them dependent on their toys. Interestingly, the ‘Child’s Play’ franchise is actually a satire on the world of consumerism and marketing. However, the story goes beyond a simple killer doll. To make the story work, he created the character of Charles Lee Ray, who inhabits the doll. Holland too explained how the idea of a mother trying to defend her son, who is being accused of ghastly murders, greatly appealed to him. “That’s what brings the character to life from flesh - or plastic in this case - to a moving thing, a monstrous psycho whose soul is stuck in that of the doll,” stated Kirschner. He believed that emulating the terror that serial killers like Charles Manson inspire would work wondrously for the frightening doll. So how did a murderer come to reside in the doll? We’ve got Kirschner to thank for that. Instead, in my script, the supernatural inciting incident was different,” Mancini highlighted. “In the original premise, Chucky - or Buddy as he was called then - was not possessed by a serial killer. “The idea was always to have this story about a little boy crying wolf about his doll, and that doll becomes this f-bomb dropping, wisecracking terror,” said Mancini, who had closely observed horror tropes pertaining to dolls and dummies as seen in the likes of ‘The Twilight Zone’ and ‘Trilogy of Terror.’ Kirschner came across Mancini’s screenplay and immediately optioned it. Mancini wrote the first script of the franchise - not knowing it would become a franchise - during his years as a film student at the University of California, Los Angeles. It was helmed by Mancini, producer David Kirschner, screenwriter John Lafia, and director/co-writer Tom Holland. The very first Chucky film, titled ‘ Child’s Play,’ came out in 1988. To understand the roots of this infamous red-haired blue-eyed doll, it is important to look at the beginnings of the ‘Child’s Play’ franchise. No, ‘Chucky’ is not based on a true story. Is ‘Chucky’ based on a true story? Is there actually a murderous doll somewhere out there? Or is Chucky’s story just a brilliantly crafted tale a little too good at scaring children and adults alike? Let’s find out! While it’s easy to dismiss all things spooky on-screen as fiction, many wonder whether ‘Chucky’ has some truth to it. Starring Zackary Arthur (Jake Wheeler), Brad Dourif (voice of Chucky), Devon Sawa (Logan Wheeler/Lucas Wheeler), Fiona Dourif (Nica Pierce), and Alex Vincent (Andy Barclay), ‘Chucky’ is a frightening deep dive into one doll’s world that fans have been obsessed with since the late 1980s.
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