Chucky Has Been Cancelled, However Don Mancini Says ‘He’ll Be Again’

Unhappy information coming late on a Friday for followers of Chucky, his signature USA/Syfy series Chucky, and horror-comedy leisure involving diabolical, cackling, knife-wielding dolls: Don Mancini‘s present has been cancelled. That cliffhanger at the end of season three is beginning to look awfully permanet—although Mancini, who first dreamed up Chucky for 1988’s Baby’s Play, has an essential takeaway: “He’ll be again!”

HE’LL BE BACK https://t.co/ZI5HEZrXrz

— Don Mancini (@RealDonMancini) September 27, 2024

Speaking to io9 forward of Chucky‘s ultimate season three episodes—what we now know are Chucky‘s ultimate episodes, full cease—Mancini mentioned he was in “very early days of talks” to make one other Baby’s Play film, one thing followers have been dreaming of for the reason that 2019 reboot, which didn’t contain Mancini or the distinctive vocal stylings of Brad Dourif (sorry, Mark Hamill, however you shouldn’t have). Mancini’s final Chucky film was 2017’s Cult of Chucky; the TV present premiered in 2021.

“[A new movie would be an] thrilling, thrilling enterprise,” Mancini instructed io9 earlier this yr. “I hope we’re going to get one other season of the present as effectively. I imply, I feel each [the movie and the show] can happen and so they can each coexist in there. My plan is to have all of it make sense by way of the continuity and the general mythology of the world we’re constructing; we received’t contradict something.”

When requested if a brand new film would stick with it the plot of the TV present, Mancini mentioned, “Or it could possibly be, if we get a season 4, we decide up these story threads. And wherever we find yourself leaving off season 4, that the film may take over. I can’t say an excessive amount of as a result of there’s really an excellent trickier approach that it really works that makes it sort of cool. I do know it’s important to take that with an enormous grain of salt coming from me. It’s like I can’t say something, however it’s actually wonderful.”

With no season 4 within the works, right here’s hoping that film concept remains to be coming alone. The Deadline article linked in Mancini’s tweet shared an announcement from the creator: “I’m heartbroken over the information that Chucky received’t be coming again for a fourth season, however am so grateful for the killer three years we did have. I’d prefer to thank UCP/Syfy/Peacock/Eat the Cat, our superior forged and Toronto-based crew (one of the best within the enterprise), and at last, to our wonderful followers, a giant bloody hug. Your unimaginable #RenewChucky marketing campaign actually warmed Chucky’s chilly coronary heart. Chucky will return! He ALWAYS come again.”

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