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Blood Buddy; Original 'Child's Play' script
Topic Started: Jun 28 2018, 06:13 AM (12 Views)
Bad-Hat Harry Bean
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I had searched through the Child's Play board and found that none had a thread about the 1988 film's original script, so I felt the need to make a threat discussing the original script as written by Don Mancini, which had went through various other working titles, its most well-known being 'Blood Buddy'. The original first draft was written in 1985 when Mancini was attending UCLA under the working title 'Batteries Not Included', and was more of a psychologically-driven whodunit horror film and a satire on the effects of toy advertising and merchandising on children, having been inspired by the rapid sales of the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and maybe even the My Buddy dolls (which is funny because I have owned a My Buddy doll since I was a very young kid).

Here, Chucky, here called "Buddy", was not possessed by the soul of a serial killer, but was the manifestation of Andy's Id after he had mixed his blood with the doll's blood (of which the doll bled after its latex skin had been played with too much) as part of a blood-brother pact, and thus it would come to life at night whenever Andy was asleep, and the living Buddy doll would kill those who were Andy's enemies (such as his babysitter, teacher, etc., the latter being featured in Child's Play 2). So it was supposed to toy with the audience much longer over whether if Andy was the killer rather than Chucky/Buddy. Buddy was a manifestation of Andy's isolation and loneliness from an overworked mother and absent father. And in addition, the finale was supposed to take place in the Play Pals Factory (much like in CP2).

And apparently, the explanation of the Chucky doll coming to life was at one point changed to having the serial killer being executed by electric chair during an electrical storm, and that this, in Frankenstein style, would transfer his soul into the doll (much like in Wes Craven's Shocker and Ghost in the Machine), before they had eventually settled on the voodoo ritual idea, something that which Don Mancini was adamant to say that he did not agree with.

And also, after they had learned that Steven Spielberg was developing a film also titled Batteries Not Included, they had changed it to 'Blood Buddy', before they eventually settled on 'Child's Play'.

What do you ladies and gents think of this original script? Fire away. (flame2)
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