The biggest kick in the nuts this year, cinematically-speaking, is the news that not only are Platinum Dunes planning to remake “A Nightmare on Elm Street” but that they’re pink-slipping Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. It’s ridiculous. You don’t fire the fuckin’ magic-man of the whole show – that big top is gonna go down without Englund’s personality. He is Freddy Krueger. Period.

Thankfully, Don Mancini’s a much better smart than everyone working at PD. The “Child’s Play” creator may have agreed to a remake of his popular 1988 film – but at least he’s smart enough to realize voice-actor Brad Dourif is and will always be ‘Chucky’. For that reason, he tells Aint it Cool News, he’s definitely hiring Dourif to voice the red-headed spite again.

‘’It’s not like we would ever… who would you get that’s better? I mean with Chucky so much of it… and David [Kirschner, the producer] and I talk about this a lot, that because he’s a puppet, there’s an aspect of him that feels like he’s an animated character, so his voice is such an immense part of it as well as what he looks like. It’s almost like recasting Homer Simpson or something. If you could recast it, you would want the actor to sound kind of like it, but it would feel weird to just be completely different I think.”

The “Child’s Play” reboot won’t be a horror-comedy like the past few sequels were- it’ll be scary. “I mean part of that is business in the sense that that is a trend that is sort of galloping over Hollywood right now, but I feel like that’s a trend we can use to our advantage, because it really does dovetail nicely with our main mission, which is to make it really scary. It’s been four years since the last one, so it just seems like the timing is really good now for us to just recreate it in a way”, said Mancini.

Mancini says he’d love to get the film out next year, but doubts it’ll happen. At this stage the earliest the new “Child’s Play” will be in theaters is Fall 2010.

For more of Quint’s excellent interview click here.