![]() In taking the franchise away from creator Don Mancini - as well as actor Brad Dourif, who brought menace and humor to the role of Charles Lee Ray - the Child’s Play reboot loses the impish spark that made it so strangely delightful. A table saw to the groin is comeuppance for one particularly lecherous handyman. Instead, we’re left to be amused by the predictably placed (albeit intermittently creative) kills that litter the tale. ![]() Suspense is nowhere to be found in this screenplay. Brian Tyree Henry plays the cop swept up in it all his mother lives in the same apartment building as the Barclays, where the murders keep piling up.Įven as Chucky’s inexplicable death plot roiled on, I couldn’t help but be charmed by the cast’s spunky line readings - like early on, when Plaza, with mock insouciance, jokes about being a juvenile mother: “I had a very productive sweet sixteen.” But Tyler Burton Smith’s script hardly challenges either of the adult actors, both of whom have proven to be magnetic performers adept at comedy and drama. Due to a settings glitch, Chucky’s contemporary incarnation (voiced by a cutesy-creepy Mark Hamill, who has done better voice work elsewhere) eventually goes the way of his predecessor, wreaking widespread havoc - just with a lot less panache. In 2019, Aubrey Plaza plays Karen Barclay, the young mom to Andy (13-year-old Gabriel Bateman of Annabelle and Lights Out fame), who by chance receives an AI-equipped Buddi doll after the defective toy is returned to his mother’s store. Unfortunately, Child’s Play is undone by a lack of tension even its best performances can’t conjure, and a familiar story that only skips lightly along the surface of gnarly ideas. Garish Christmas lights and drones equipped with razors - both of which feature in the film as fantastic weaponry - are amusing, but they’re only as effective as the limp horror story around it. Their hope is that the Barbarian team will be part of a new wave of genre entertainment for New Line, so expect to hear a lot more from BoulderLight this year.Child’s Play, the new slasher reboot of the Chucky franchise, directed by Lars Klevberg, half works. On a related note, New Line just linked up with BoulderLight Pictures to have the Barbarian producers develop “high concept” genre movies for the studio, signing a first-look deal with the company. BoulderLight’s Tracy Rosenblum and Vertigo’s Andrew Childs will exec produce. Lifshitz will also produce along with Vertigo’s Roy Lee. But the team helped Companion land not just a home but greenlit the start of production, backing Hancock to make his directorial debut.”īoulderLight’s Raphael Margules and J.D. It was initially going to act as BoulderLight and Cregger’s follow-up to Barbarian before the filmmaker switched tracks to focus on his own script, Weapons, also now casting and at New Line. THR reports, “ Companion was won by New Line in a hot horror auction near the beginning of the year. At this time, plot details are under wraps. Harvey Guillén (“What We Do in the Shadows”), Lukas Gage ( You), Megan Suri ( It Lives Inside), and Jack Quaid ( Scream) have also been announced to star.ĭescribed as a sci-fi/horror movie, Companion will mark the directorial debut of Drew Hancock, who also wrote the script. ![]() The breakout star of “Yellowjackets” and The Boogeyman, Sophie Thatcher has joined the cast of the upcoming Companion for New Line Cinema, THR reports this afternoon.Īnnounced back in February, Barbarian director Zach Cregger is producing Companion for New Line Cinema. See □ in theaters everywhere today & please stay all the way through the end-credits so it can be stuck in yours! Tickets here /0aM2ocmazU I listened to “The Buddi Song”□ 50+ times in the days before I recorded it. ![]() In true horror fashion, it will be stuck in his head forever. Hamill shared the full song with a little backstory that included him listening to it an insane amount of times before recording it. In the reboot, Andy ( Gabriel Bateman) is the recipient of this song, which eventually turns chilling. Part of the new doll’s gimmick is that he has his own “Buddi Song” that he sings to his “imprint”. Orion Films’ Child’s Play ( read our review) remake is now in theaters and features the talented Mark Hamill as the voice of the new Chucky, which has been changed from a Good Guys doll to that of an interactive Buddi robot with modern tech.
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