For a lot of fans of a convinced obsessed doll, the return of Chucky in his own TV series has been a much appreciated renewal for the character that made his original movie entrance in 1988’s Child’s Play and looked to have bent out, in his unique form, in 2017’s Cult of Chucky after total 7 movies, with the franchise being rebooted two years later.
On the other hand, creator Don Mancini had other thoughts, before a year the reboot was released and there was already chitchat of a TV series being in development to continue the Chucky franchise with mostly its original movie stars. Many of these “in development” shows never actually make to screens; it was not until the show was green lit the following year that fans started to get thrilled about back of Brad Dourif as the demon doll.
In the end of the first season, we were given the daunting vision of entire army of Chucky dolls being set free on the country, with the spirit of Charles Lee Ray possessing every one of them. According to Mancini, the new Army of Chucky dolls will be an attribute of the second season, which was converted weeks ago and will be incoming sometime late in 2022.And Mancini explained that,
"Once you get into your fourth decade in a franchise, it's trying to forge ahead into unseen, unexplored territory. And the idea of multiple Chucky dolls always appealed to me. First, of course, just as a visual, it's irresistible, but then conceptually, there are so many things you can do with it. I can't talk too much about that because I don't want to spoil fun coming in season two, but insofar as it impacted what we've already done in season one. Yeah, it was important that they not have a hive mind because I think it's more interesting to do this and, again, turn Brad on subtle variations of the Chucky persona. On a lot of fronts, that's something we were doing a lot of in this season of Chucky, which is dissecting the persona of Chucky and the persona of Charles Lee Ray."
Cult of Chucky shaped separate looks for the many descriptions of Chucky, but the Chucky TV series has made the Chucky Army into a collection distinguished by their slightly differing personalities, which is likely going to be developed in the coming season.
"We're thrilled to start pulling the strings on a second season of puppet mayhem with Chucky," Mancini said at the time of the series’ renewal. "Many thanks to our partners at USA, Syfy and UCP for their incredible support and guidance bringing Chucky to the small screen, bigger than ever. And to the fans, Chucky sends his still-undying thanks, and a message: 'This isn't over, not by a long shot. You better watch your backs in 2022!'"
For fans, the regeneration of the series when so many others have failed is immense news and we will look forward to more Chucky mayhem next year.
