SLING interview with the cast and crew of ’Chucky’ the new SYFY/ USA tv show

’Chucky’ Creator Don Mancini Talks ’Child’s Play’ Memories If you ever hear a “Good Guy” doll tell you, “Hi, I’m Chucky. I’m your friend to the end!”, it generally means you’re about to be violently murdered. But if you’re Don Mancini, the Chucky creator who wrote those words, they’re a comforting mantra. Over the course of 33 years, seven movies, and now a TV show—Chucky, which premiered Tuesday, Oct. 12 at 10pm ET on both USA Network and SYFY—Mancini has been the man behind the sociopathic puppet. After co-writing the original film, Mancini has been the sole writer on each installment of the original series (he was not involved in the 2019 Child’s Play remake), as well as director of the last three films. As the singular voice behind the series, Mancini is the rare Hollywood auteur who has been able to pilot an entire franchise (it doesn’t hurt that Chucky’s actual voice has always been provided by Brad Dourif, whose daughter Fiona joined the series in Curse of Chucky). Even more rare? The fact that the m