The "Curse Of Chucky" is the sixth movie in the "Child's Play" franchise. It has actually tied the Fast and Furious franchise, and Star Wars (at least until Star Wars 7). While it was dismissed as a novelty movie straight to DVD, writer-director Don Mancini wanted the sixth installment to go back to its roots.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Mancini talks about his vision for the next direction of the franchise.

On the more serious tone of the sixth movie (as opposed to the last two releases, "Bride of Chucky" and "Seed of Chucky"): Primarily because our fans, after Bride and Seed, were vocal about wanting Chucky to go back to his straight-up horror roots. I think that's also the way the genre has gone. When we did Bride of Chucky in '98, self-referential, comedic horror was very popular. By the time Seed of Chucky came out in 2004 that mood was on its way out and torture porn was just coming in. But also for me, one of the reasons I was excited about doing Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky as dark comedies was because I didn't want to make the same movie over and over again. After Child's Play 3 - you know, 1-through-3 came out in quick succession - and there was a danger of repeating ourselves. I love dark comedy and I thought that the premise of a two-foot-tall-doll possessed by a serial killer would lend itself to a certain amount of healthy absurdity, so we mined that vein for a while. But now, after several years of that, I was looking forward to doing a straight-up horror film because, as a director, before this I'd only done Seed, which was a comedy. I was looking forward to actually making a gothic horror movie."

On whether the rumors of a Chucky Broadway Musical was serious: "Semi-serious. I don't know if anyone else is serious about it at all but I think it could be a great musical. I actually think Bride of Chucky specifically would make a great musical because it's a romance, or a parody of a romantic story. We've seen the Evil Dead musical and there's been a Silence of the Lambs musical. I love musicals, it's such a great American art form and the puppet-centric nature of Avenue Q really made me think. I would love to do it - whether or not it will actually happen, who knows."

Do you have any song titles in mind?
Oh, I have a few. In Bride of Chucky, (Chucky's love interest) Tiffany has this line, "I'll kill anyone but I'll only sleep with someone I love." There's a wonderful chorus right there.

Perhaps it's not exactly Tony Award material, but the gala performance would be interesting...