Along with penning every screenplay in the series, starting with the original Child’s Play in 1988 and leading up to 2017’s Cult of Chucky, Mancini has also directed the previous three movies.
For the television series, Mancini will serve as the showrunner with Child’s Play franchise producer David Kirschner also serving as a producer.
As the new series will continue the events established by previous Child’s Play and Chucky movies (sans the reboot, of course), it had been expected that Dourif would be returning to reprise the role, but now the news is official.
Child’s Play 2 star Christine Elise also appeared in the unrated cut of Cult of Chucky for an awesome cameo of her own.