When producer David Kirschner joined the project, inspired by a lifelong fear of dolls that started with an episode of The Twilight Zone, he made some changes to the Blood Buddy script before John Lafia did a rewrite and Tom Holland signed on to direct, and they were off and running on the start of the hugely popular franchise.Ĭollider recently got the opportunity to chat 1-on-1 with Kirschner (who has also produced the Hocus Pocus films) about the evolution of Chucky, from that first script and his original drawings of what the doll should look like to everything that’s come since.
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.
