Don Mancini

 ( 1963 Births ) 

George Donald Mancini (born January 25, 1963) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for creating and running the Child's Play franchise (1988–present).

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Career Having been a horror fan since his childhood, Mancini's inspiration for Child's Play were films like Trilogy of Terror and The Twilight Zone episode "Living Doll"; aware of the "killer doll" as a horror trope, Mancini realized that the concept had never been executed as a feature-length film with animatronic effects work. As a film student at UCLA in the mid-1980s, Mancini was amused by the popularity of the Cabbage Patch Kids line of dolls, and that the ubiquitous dolls were disappearing from toy shelves and prompting physical fights between parents. Mancini's father had worked in the advertising industry all his life, and he knew how effective marketing could result in consumer bedlam. Based on this, Mancini wanted to write a dark satire about how marketing affected children, with his first effort being as the co-writer of Child's Play (1988).

Mancini wrote all seven films in the original Child's Play film series, and was the executive producer of Bride of Chucky and Cult of Chucky. He began directing Child's Play franchise entries with Seed of Chucky (2004), followed by Curse of Chucky (2013) and Cult of Chucky (2017), and was the creator and showrunner of the Chucky TV series. He was not involved with the 2019 reboot.

In 2007, he won the EyeGore award for career contributions to the horror genre. He sometimes goes by the pseudonym Kit Dubois. Mancini attended St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia, University of California in Los Angeles, and Columbia University (Brad Dourif was among his teachers) in New York City.

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Personal life

Mancini grew up in Richmond, Virginia. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, studying film. He is gay. He has described consciously incorporating queer elements into the Child's Play films; his experiences as a gay man, including receiving bullying and abuse from his father because of it, informed Mancini's creative direction on the Chucky TV series, which features a gay protagonist.

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Filmography

+Film ! Year ! Title !width="65"	Director !width="65"	Writer !width="65"	Executive Producer ! Notes
1988	Cellar Dweller				Credited as "Kit Du Bois"
	Child's Play
1990	Child's Play 2
1991	Child's Play 3
1998	Bride of Chucky
2004	Seed of Chucky
2013	Curse of Chucky
2017	Cult of Chucky

+Television ! Year ! Title !width="65"	Director !width="65"	Writer !width="65"	Producer ! Notes
1990	Tales from the Crypt				Episode: "Fitting Punishment"
2015	Hannibal				Writer (2 episodes) / Producer (8 episodes)
2016–2017	Channel Zero				Writer (3 episodes) / Supervising producer (6 episodes)
2021–2024	Chucky				Creator and executive producer (24 episodes) / Director (Episode: "Death on Denial") / Director and writer (Episode: "Death by Misadventure") / Writer (8 episodes)

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Awards

Saturn Awards	Best Writing (with Tom Holland and John Lafia)	Child's Play (1988)
	Best Writing	Bride of Chucky (1998)
	Special Recognition Award	Cult of Chucky (2017) and Child's Play franchise
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards	Best Screenplay	Bride of Chucky (1998)

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External links

• Campblood.org Interview with Don Mancini

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