In a story from
Variety, Twisted Pictures, the group behind the
Saw films, is looking to buy up the rights to
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise.
It looks like the producer/financier will work with Lionsgate on these projects. The studio is releasing
Saw VI on October 23.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre would have a contemporary storyline and would also be done in 3D. Writing the script would be Stephen Susco (
The Grudge).
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in recent years had been brought out by New Line with a remake and a prequel produced by Platinum Dunes.
The new deal with Twisted Pictures will be for multiple films.
The 2003 remake of
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre cost $9.5 million and brought in $110 million worldwide. The 2006 film grossed $55 million on a budget of $13 million.
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Gein skinned his victims, exhumed the corpses (including his mothers) and adorned his home with their body parts and made furniture with their bones and wore second skins made out of women's flesh. Chainsaw (the original) applied the furniture creations heavily, and Lambs used the wearing of the female skin in its plot.
I used to think Chainsaw was about real events, but I studied upon it. The ironic thing is, that as a kid, I lived in Texas with my family in 1975, about fifty miles from where the Chainsaw incident had supposedly taken place. BTW, the narrator at the beginning of the original movie was John Larroquette, the goofy lawyer from the show "Night Court".
ill laugh and point when it happens :]
Whoops,I went to rambling again.Sorry.lol
3D is becoming like one of those songs that you keep on hearing and hearing it really begins to start pissing you off every time you hear it.