The biggest difference though lies in the eyes. The film’s puppet designers went through a variety of different looks for the Buddi doll, ultimately landing on a model fairly similar to the original Chucky.Each doll has blue eyes, which naturally turn red when they go bad/malfunction.And by bear – I do mean a totally furry & clawed version of the doll (this would be my pick of the bunch). The Buddi doll comes in different models: There’s the expected red-haired, freckled design, but also a Blonde, African-American, and (strangest of all) bear version of the ‘Buddi' doll.Also, per the toy’s box: The Buddi can control all other Kaslan products and smart home devices (this will be a very important plot point later on).The Buddi doll was designed by a shady AI tech/military company, The Kaslan Corporation.The Buddi doll’s tagline – “I’m your Best Buddi.Per the on-set toy’s box: the Buddi doll “learns from human interaction, and its twenty sensors & cameras provide detailed real time info about the environment.” The doll can “comprehend and converse in English and Spanish.”.Since Andy has been aged up, he doesn’t immediately take (or even want) the doll.

His single mom Karen (Plaza) just wants her quiet son to have a friend – so she buys him a discount version of the new AI ‘Buddi’ doll. Photo by Eric Milner/Orion Pictures Andy ( Gabriel Bateman) has been aged up for the reboot – now a lonely twelve year old boy, moving into a new apartment complex. From there it’s pretty simple: Chucky tracks Andy down (through the sequels & decades), killing everyone who gets in his way… which (turns out to be) quite a lot. Said doll is then bought by a single mom as a present for her six year old son, Andy – who the evil doll marks as the perfect human vessel. There’s been seven films in the Child’s Play franchise, all entwined in the same interlocking mythology: a mortally-wounded serial killer, Charles Lee ‘Chucky’ Ray, transfers his rotten soul into a child-sized ‘Good Guy’ doll. In my head, I imagine an AD & Location Manager cackled with glee at the thought. It almost felt like a weird practical joke: shooting two short scenes… in a supposedly haunted mental institution. It would be fair to assume the crew is prepping for a creepy derelict hospital set-piece but in actuality – they’ve merely redressed a single room into a basement locker. Today, the crew of Child’s Play (in their last week or so of production) have set up shop there. It’s a rainy Vancouver day when a couple journalists (including myself) journey to the fabled Riverview Hospital – which I’m told repeatedly is the number one location to shoot at in the city.

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