{"id":96914,"date":"2017-04-05T03:05:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T07:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=96914"},"modified":"2017-04-05T03:05:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T07:05:04","slug":"manitoba-premier-turns-down-hollywood-offer-to-host-chucky-horror-flick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/05\/manitoba-premier-turns-down-hollywood-offer-to-host-chucky-horror-flick\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba premier turns down Hollywood offer to host Chucky horror flick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister has turned down an offer to have his Winnipeg mansion used in an upcoming slasher film about an evil doll.(Photo by Manning Centre c\/o: Jake Wright (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>WINNIPEG \u2014 Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister has turned down an offer to have his Winnipeg mansion used in an upcoming slasher film about an evil doll.<\/p>\n

Pallister says he was approached late last year by a site locator who wanted to use his waterfront home for the horror movie Cult of Chucky, which has been filming in different areas of Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

The film is the seventh in the Child’s Play franchise, which focuses on a doll that is possessed by the spirit of a serial killer.<\/p>\n

Pallister’s home is among the biggest in Winnipeg \u2014 a 9,000-square-foot mansion valued at more than $2-million.<\/p>\n

The premier says it would have been fun to see his house on the big screen.<\/p>\n

But he and his family did not want the home to be opened up to a movie crew.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea of my wife and children and I making it up the carpet at the Academy Awards to see our home on display … would have been great, but unfortunately we just weren’t able to offer up our home,\u201d Pallister said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Pallister praised the number of Manitoba locations that have appeared in Hollywood movies, including the provincial legislature which was seen in the 2005 movie Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman.<\/p>\n

But he appeared to have his tongue in cheek when talking about the Child’s Play franchise, which has never been nominated for an Academy Award.<\/p>\n

He called the offer a chance to \u201cget involved in an ostensibly fabulous Hollywood production of fine quality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI tell you, those Chucky films get better and better. The more they produce, the better they get.\u201d<\/p>\n

Opposition New Democrat legislature critic Wab Kinew joked that a movie about a doll that attacks people with scissors might be apt for Pallister, whose Progressive Conservative government has been focused on spending restraint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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