A new teaser trailer for “Chucky,” the upcoming TV series continuation of the “Child’s Play” franchise, has arrived offering a brief glimpse of what to expect before the series premiere on USA Network and SYFY on October 12th.
In addition, creator Don Mancini spoke with EW about the story which has been kept fairly secret up until now. He says the main character is Arthur, a 14-year-old gay teen who is bullied and sort of adrift after the recent death of his mother.
He’s a young artist who makes sculptures with doll parts and finds Chucky at a yard sale and buys him. It turns out that he gets much more than he bargained for.
Teo Briones, Alyvia Alyn Lind, and Bjorgvin Arnarson also have roles as fellow teenagers, an age group the franchise has never really touched upon before:
“One of the things I wanted to do was bring [the franchise] back to its Child’s Play roots and have the protagonists [be] kids. But since, with the first couple of movies, we’d already delved into having little kids, I wanted to explore something different, so this time we’re exploring young teenagers.”
The series will also bring back a lot of familiar faces – Alex Vincent as Andy, Christine Elise McCarthy as his foster-sister, Fiona Dourif as Nica Pierce and Jennifer Tilly as Tiffany Valentine. The returns are designed to create cohesion between the movies and the upcoming series:
“I deliberately ended Cult of Chucky on a series of cliffhangers, major cliffhangers, because I knew a TV series would be the ideal place to accommodate delving into the ramifications. So we begin the series introducing our new story, our new milieu, and then we start to bring the veteran characters into the story, and it all comes together for a big showdown.”
Nor is this the end of the road for Chucky as Mancini says he has plans to produce more “Child’s Play” movies in the future either “in lieu of additional seasons of the series, or in tandem with [them], potentially.”
His team is intent on “a broader Chucky universe with the TV series that now could span over different media.” A full trailer showcasing the series will go live alongside the Comic-Con@Home Chucky panel on July 25th.
