I've been a long standing fan of the Childs Play franchise since i was 10 years old. I've seen all of the movies and I even look forward to the future television series that is currently in the works. But I recently have seen the trailer for the new remake that they are going to be releasing on June 21st of this year.
Link for the Trailer will be below:
After seeing this I have several concerns. The first one is the more obvious concern and that is the child actor looks to old for the role. I understand that they want to get a young actor who can give a great performance but I find it hard to believe that he is interested in playing with a doll. The whole movie hinges on the fact that Andy (child character from the movie) wants this doll for a friend. He is a only child who doesn't have any friends and his mother is a single mom who has to work to get by. Therefore Andy is often left alone. Now if maybe they can change it and have Andy's mother get him the doll and they make a gag that doesn't want it. There is that possibility and remains to be seen when they release the movie or show us in a future trailer.
The second issue I have is we don't hear Chucky's voice or more importantly, his iconic laugh. Brad Dourif's voice work as the Good Guy Doll with the soul of the notorious killer Charles Lee Ray, AKA Chucky, was the driving force for the original character and original film. He makes that movie stand out and work great. In this trailer they don't let us hear who is voicing the murderous doll. Now I didn't expect to hear the killers voice in the very first trailer. I imagine they would save it for the 3rd. The first one they just tease us by showing us Aubry Plaza (Portrays Andy's mother in this film) giving her son the Buddi doll. (I believe they couldn't get the rights to use the name Good Guy Doll and change the name to Buddi) We never really see the doll full on. Its all shots of him in the shadows or a close of of his hands. I expect we hear the robotic voice in the next trailer doing the "Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna play?" line. But what has me very nervous is that the movies IMDB page doesn't have anyone listed as the voice of Chucky or even list a character of Charles Lee Ray, which means he hasn't been casted.
Now that could mean a number of things. It could be that they are going to just ADR all his lines after the movie is completed, but seeing as the movie is coming out in about 4 months from the time of me writing this that seems very unlikely. Another option could be that they are trying to keep this casting under wraps and are not listing the actor. I'm hoping this is the actual situation since it is a iconic roll and voice in the horror movie world. The only other thing that i can see happening is that they are not going to have the soul of Charles Lee Ray placed into the Buddi doll. There is a rumor i heard that they are going to change the origin story and the doll will instead have a AI system that goes haywire and causes the doll to go on a murder spree. Now, if this is the case that would explain the whole no actor portraying Charles Lee Ray/Chucky issue. But then it makes me wonder why not just change it a little and not call this movie Childs Play. I'm hoping that they will not go this route but only time will tell. Let us know what you think. Who do you want to see fill in the tiny shoes of Chucky?
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