Producer David Kirschner on Child's Play, the 35th anniversary of the franchise, and his journey from An American Tail to a killer doll.
The Big Picture Thirty-five years ago, audiences were introduced to a salty murderous doll, a child’s toy with the consciousness of a very pissed off serial killer trapped within it. Since the release of Child’s Play on November 9, 1988, Chucky – whose full name, Charles Lee Ray, is derived from the names of notorious killers Charles Manson, Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray – has spawned a franchise that includes several movies, a TV show, and more merchandise than you can imagine.
DAVID KIRSCHNER: Both of those. For a little backstory, the reason I did Chucky in the first place, my wife and I had been in London and I bought a book, called The Dollhouse Murders, that I still have in my office. When I was a kid, I watched an episode of The Twilight Zone with my big sister and my big cousin, called “Talky Tina,” and it starred Telly Savalas. It was so scary to me. I was always frightened of my sister’s dolls, but the truth is, I was frightened of everything.
KIRSCHNER: It’s a very good question. When I first did Chucky and my mother saw it, she asked the same question. By day, children imagine and pretend and have the most glorious of imaginations. By night, children have the darkest of imaginations. “Dad, mom, there’s a monster under my bed. Close my closet door.” I was that kid. I still get very frightened by many things. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island and was the toast of European society.
I had Spielberg pixie dust all over me. But I wanted to prove that I could do something really scary, and Don’s script was the answer for that. John Lafia came in and did a complete rewrite of the first script, but I brought Don back for Child’s Play 2 and Child’s Play 3. When it came to Child’s Play 4, he said to me, “David, I’d like to direct this.” I said, “Look, you’ve not been on the set with me completely, from one end to the other.” I really believed in him.
And we did. I went back in with Edward Warschilka, who’s a wonderful editor, and I asked Don to come in. Tom had banned Don from the set. He just was annoyed by him, didn’t like him, or whatever it was. After that first cut, the studio got rid of Tom and we went back in and edited it, cut 27 minutes out of it, tested it again, and it tested through the roof. Don’t get me wrong, Tom is very talented and brought a lot to the franchise.
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