“I think I first started thinking about it when I was working onHannibal,” says Mancini.

And no Anthony Hopkins?

How is this going to work?"

Chucky from the Chucky TV

Credit: SyFy

“Of course, like everybody else, I was blown away.

Anyway, I ended up in theHannibalwriters' room.

It was a sort of fanciful imagining initially.

Don Mancini

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Chucky gets 10 F-bombs per episode, so that’s more than enough.

It’s the inverse of the way Spielberg used Chucky in his cameo inReady Player One.

Watch the teaser trailer for the series below.