A few weeks ago, it was announced that the cast for the upcoming Chucky TV series – a small screen continuation of the Child's Play film franchise – will include Devon Sawa, Zackary Arthur, Teo Briones, Bjorgvin Arnarson, and Alyvia Alyn Lind, with Jennifer Tilly on board to reprise the role of Tiffany and Brad Dourif once again providing the voice of genre icon Chucky. There's a notable absence in that cast list; if Chucky is picking up after the events of Cult of Chucky (watch it HERE), you'd think Fiona Dourif would have to come back in the role of Nica.
Well, now it has been confirmed. Entertainment Weekly was able to exclusively reveal that Fiona Dourif will indeed appear in the USA Network / Syfy series.
Don Mancini, who has written every film in the Child's Play franchise (except for the remake) and directed a few of them, developed Chucky with producer David Kirschner. They are executive producing the show with Harley Peyton and Nick Antosca. Mancini will also be directing the first episode.
Chucky has the following synopsis:
After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets. Meanwhile, the arrival of enemies and allies from Chucky’s past threatens to expose the truth behind the killings, as well as the demon doll’s untold origins as a seemingly ordinary child who somehow became this notorious monster.
Mancini has said that "Chucky has a different goal in the TV show than he's ever had before", a goal that is "designed to evoke something that's going on in the zeitgeist today."