Don Mancini talks Seed of Chucky movie

BD: What did Chucky, or I should say "Child's Play" mean to you back in '88, and what does he mean to you now, five films later?

Don Mancini: When I wrote the original script for Child's Play, I was a junior at UCLA and I didn't really have any expectations about it at all other than hoping that maybe it would get me an agent. I was very luck and hit the jackpot. With that script I ascended and went past so many of the important plateaus that you have to scale as a writer in Hollywood.

I got the agent, sold the script, it was made into a movie and became a franchise. It was just the sort of thing one can never plan on. I didn't have any expectations, initially, about it other than it would be a great writing sample for me to get an agent. And now Chucky has, for me, been a tool with which I was able to grow as a filmmaker over the years. I've made a consistent living as a screenwriter for almost twenty years now, but Chucky has allowed me....

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Source: Dread Central