Chucky Has Been Cancelled, But Don Mancini Says ‘He’ll Be Back’

Sad quality coming precocious connected a Friday for fans of Chucky, his signature USA/Syfy bid Chucky, and horror-comedy amusement involving diabolical, cackling, knife-wielding dolls: Don Mancini‘s amusement has been cancelled. That cliffhanger astatine the extremity of play three is starting to look awfully permanet—though Mancini, who archetypal dreamed up Chucky for 1988’s Child’s Play, has an important takeaway: “He’ll beryllium back!”

HE'LL BE BACK https://t.co/ZI5HEZrXrz

— Don Mancini (@RealDonMancini) September 27, 2024

Speaking to io9 up of Chucky‘s last play 3 episodes—what we present cognize are Chucky‘s last episodes, afloat stop—Mancini said helium was successful “very aboriginal days of talks” to marque different Child’s Play movie, thing fans person been dreaming of since the 2019 reboot, which did not impact Mancini oregon the distinctive vocal stylings of Brad Dourif (sorry, Mark Hamill, but you shouldn’t have). Mancini’s past Chucky movie was 2017’s Cult of Chucky; the TV amusement premiered successful 2021.

“[A caller movie would beryllium an] exciting, breathtaking enterprise,” Mancini told io9 earlier this year. “I anticipation we’re going to get different play of the amusement arsenic well. I mean, I deliberation some [the movie and the show] tin hap and they tin some coexist successful there. My program is to person it each marque consciousness successful presumption of the continuity and the wide mythology of the satellite we’re building; we won’t contradict anything.”

When asked if a caller movie would transportation connected the crippled of the TV show, Mancini said, “Or it could be, if we get a play four, we prime up those communicative threads. And wherever we extremity up leaving disconnected play four, that the movie could instrumentality over. I can’t accidental excessively overmuch due to the fact that there’s really an adjacent trickier mode that it works that makes it benignant of cool. I cognize you person to instrumentality that with a immense atom of brackish coming from me. It’s similar I can’t accidental anything, but it’s truly amazing.”

With nary play 4 successful the works, here’s hoping that movie thought is inactive coming alone. The Deadline nonfiction linked successful Mancini’s tweet shared a connection from the creator: “I’m heartbroken implicit the quality that Chucky won’t beryllium coming backmost for a 4th season, but americium truthful grateful for the slayer 3 years we did have. I’d similar to convey UCP/Syfy/Peacock/Eat the Cat, our awesome formed and Toronto-based unit (the champion successful the business), and finally, to our astonishing fans, a large bloody hug. Your unthinkable #RenewChucky run truly warmed Chucky’s acold heart. Chucky volition return! He ALWAYS travel back.”

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