June 5, 2005

Fangoria Weekend of Horrors, Burbank, California, June 5th, 2005 at the Burbank Marriot

Tony Todd (Candyman) stopped by for a panel with director Derek Wan to promote their latest project Shadow: Dead Riot. Tony mentioned that there is talk of another Candyman film, but nothing concrete yet. “There’s talk of a VERSUS film.” Could he be referring to Robert Englund’s wishful thinking of pitting Freddy Krueger against the Candyman? Tony joked around about taking on Chucky, but it was a JOKE! Also, from what I understand (unless I heard wrong), he will NOT be in Final Destination 3, which is currently filming in Vancouver. He will however be appearing in Hatchet alongside Kane Hodder, Robert Englund, and Joshua Leonard.

While ROGUE pictures set up a booth to promote the new Seed Of Chucky DVD and give out promotional shirts, actress Jennifer Tilly and writer / director Don Mancini took the stage for the next panel. Both her and Don were very playful on stage and shared plenty of stories on what went on behind the scenes of Seed Of Chucky. John Waters’ was an openly huge fan of the Child’s Play films and requested a death scene in one of the sequels! They both quickly became aware of John’s sick sense of humor as he would send both Jennifer and Don graphic emails every single day, which Don said, “the type of stuff I can’t even describe to you guys out loud.” Jennifer added, “Anytime I opened John’s emails, I’d get a dozen computer viruses.”

All kidding aside, both of them would be open to another Chucky outing, given time and the right story. Don was asked about the potential of a Vs. film. “It’s enough having all these characters now like Tiffany and Glen with Chucky, that I could probably get away with one more film before resorting to the VERSUS movie.” Audiences asked if it would be Chucky Vs Leprechaun. “That seems kind of obvious. I don’t know. I think it’d be way more interesting to have Chucky up against someone like Freddy, because it’d be really fun to write all that dialogue.” Overall, an excellent panel. We were reminded again that if we want to see “more” of Chucky… to pick up the DVD!

*All photos by Robert V. Galluzzo and property of Icons Of Fright.com