{"id":196154,"date":"2019-03-31T13:02:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T13:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2019\/03\/31\/mark-hamill-is-voicing-chucky-in-child-s-play-reboot\/"},"modified":"2019-03-31T13:02:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T13:02:42","slug":"mark-hamill-is-voicing-chucky-in-child-s-play-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2019\/03\/31\/mark-hamill-is-voicing-chucky-in-child-s-play-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Hamill is voicing Chucky in \u2018Child\u2019s Play\u2019 reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/http:\/\/new.nagalandpost.com\/cms\/gall_content\/no_images_650x.jpg><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Mark Hamill has been cast to voice Chucky in the upcoming Child&rsquo;s Play reboot.<\/p>\n<p>The Star Wars actor announced the news on Twitter yesterday (March 30), saying that he &ldquo;can&rsquo;t wait to bring such an iconic character to life&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The Lars Klevberg-directed film, which is a remake of the 1988 horror classic, is released in the US on June 21, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Hamill in the film is Aubrey Plaza (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) and Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta, If Beale Street Could Talk).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The movie will copy the original plot, with Plaza playing single mother who gives her son a toy doll, unaware that it possesses the soul of a serial killer.<\/p>\n<p>Producer David Katzenberg said in a statement: &ldquo;We feel incredibly lucky to have an icon creating a new take on an iconic character.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mark is a gifted actor and celebrated vocal performer, and he&rsquo;s approached this challenge with incredible energy and commitment.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Don Mancini is working on a new Chucky series for SyFy that will continue the original story and bring star Brad Dourif back in plastic. The series will follow 2017&rsquo;s Cult of Chucky.<\/p>\n<p>(NME)<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Hamill is voicing Chucky in \u2018Child\u2019s Play\u2019 reboot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}