![]() ![]() The little boy’s mother, Karen Barclay, is given this doll. ![]() That is what allowed me to write Child’s Play, and then also to direct it. If you wanna have a movie that really stands up for a time, you better have your lead characters be people that the audience can become emotionally involved with, and I was not able to solve that challenge. The little boy would get mad at his teacher or at his dentist, and then because he made the doll a blood buddy, it became his id and the doll would kill because the little boy was angry at the adult figures, but that made the little boy very unsympathetic. The original screenplay that had been written by Don Mancini was turned down by everybody. When we were growing up, we’d look around as we went to sleep, around our room with our action figures or our dolls, or whatever, and I think that all of us thought, at one time or another, “Wouldn’t it be really interesting, if not wonderful, if one of my toys came alive and could talk to me?” It’s the same thing like, “I wish my dog could talk to me,” but it’s even more universal than that. TOM HOLLAND: Well, the reason I was attracted to it was that it had a feeling we’ve all had as little kids. With some changes to the doll and its motivations, the project was greenlit and a new franchise had begun.Ĭollider recently got the opportunity to chat 1-on-1 with Holland about what originally attracted him to the project, focusing on the drama more than the absurdity of a story about a killer doll, the biggest production challenges in bringing the doll to life, why he feels audiences connected to this story, figuring out the best approach to shooting Chucky himself, and how they even ended up having their young lead actor’s four-year-old sister fill in for Chucky during an important moment.Ĭollider: When you first heard about Child’s Play and this whole killer doll idea, what was your reaction to it? Did it seem silly? Did you feel like you could make it work? What convinced you that this crazy idea would actually work? When director Tom Holland (who also wrote and directed the original Fright Night and wrote 1984’s Cloak & Dagger) first had the project come his way, he wasn’t fully sold on it because he felt the young boy, Andy Barclay, was too unsympathetic. What started as a script by Don Mancini called Blood Buddy, about a doll that came with a pin so that you could become its blood buddy, turned into a tale about a struggling mother ( Catherine Hicks) unknowingly gifting her son ( Alex Vincent) a Good Guy doll that a killer ( Brad Dourif) on the verge of death used voodoo to transfer his soul into.
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