In retaliation, he sabotages the Buddi doll that he is assembling by disabling all of its safety protocols on its chip before installation. At a Kaslan assembly factory in Vietnam, an overworked employee is abused by his supervisor for unsatisfactory performance. Multinational Kaslan Corporation has just launched Buddi, a revolutionary line of high-tech dolls designed to be lifelong companions to their owners, learning from their surroundings, and acting accordingly via artificial intelligence, quickly becoming a worldwide success.

The film grossed $45 million worldwide against a $10 million budget, with the Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus calling it 'predictably gruesome' and 'generally entertaining'.

Principal photography for the film began in September 2018 and wrapped in November in Vancouver, British Columbia.Ĭhild's Play was theatrically released in the United States on June 21, 2019, by Orion Pictures through United Artists Releasing. Klevberg signed on as director from a script by Burton Smith, saying in an interview he drew inspiration from the 1982 science fiction film, E.T. By 2018, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced a remake with a different creative team than the original film series. However, it was turned down and the project entered development hell. Plans for a Child's Play remake began in the early 2010s, with original Chucky voice actor Brad Dourif set to reprise the role.

It follows a family terrorized by a high-tech doll who develops self-awareness and becomes subsequently hostile and murderous. Serving both as a remake of the 1988 eponymous film and a reboot of the Child's Play franchise, the film stars Aubrey Plaza, Gabriel Bateman, Brian Tyree Henry, and Mark Hamill as the voice of Chucky. Child's Play is a 2019 horror film directed by Lars Klevberg from a screenplay written by Tyler Burton Smith.

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