Bear McCreary (10 Cloverfield Lane, Battlestar Galactica, Happy Death Day) has been tapped to score the upcoming Child’s Play reboot. The film is directed by Lars Klevberg (Polaroid) and stars Aubrey Plaza, Brian Tyree Henry and Gabriel Bateman, as well as Mark Hamill as the voice of Chucky. The horror thriller is based on the 1988 classic (scored by Joe Renzetti) and follows a single mother who gifts her son a Buddi doll, unaware of its more sinister nature. Tyler Burton Smith wrote the screenplay. David Katzenberg (It, The Goldbergs) and Seth Grahame-Smith (The Lego Batman Movie, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) are producing the project. Child’s Play is set to be released on June 21, 2019 by Orion Pictures. Visit the official show website for updates.
McCreary has also recently scored the upcoming features Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Rim of the World, Eli and The Professor and the Madman. He also continues to score AMC’s The Walking Dead, ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Starz’s Outlander.
