Horror remakes and reboots are simply a part of the Hollywood style panorama today; generally, a contemporary eye utilized to acquainted supply materials can yield a triumphant win, one current instance being Evil Lifeless Rise. Extra usually, although, the cash-grab intentions shine via every part else.
Probably the most continuously burned franchises can be certainly one of horror’s oldest: The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath. The latest try to recapture that 1974 Tobe Hooper magic was a complete bust, very like the makes an attempt that preceded it, however that doesn’t imply another person isn’t going to present it one other strive.
At the very least there’s an intriguing film star connected to Deadline‘s report about Leatherface and firm’s potential return: Glen Powell. He’s a local of Austin, Texas, the place Hooper famously shot his two Chainsaw motion pictures, and although he hasn’t completed too many horror tasks, he did escape on the TV horror-comedy collection Scream Queens.
Deadline’s story is much less replace, extra hypothesis, however there’s clearly some movement round a Texas Chainsaw remake if one of many huge trades is digging into it. In line with the story, “studios and filmmakers” alike have approached Verve, which has “repped the rights for the slasher collection created by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel since 2017,” a couple of contemporary undertaking involving cinema’s most well-known cannibal crew.
Nonetheless, a Verve consultant was very mild on particulars when chatting with the commerce; they stated a “a multimedia technique for the seminal horror franchise” is within the works, however that “Verve has not formally submitted the property into any filmmakers, producers or consumers … packages are preemptively being dropped at Verve.”
A kind of packages is seemingly the one involving Powell (as a possible star and producer) and writer-director J.T. Mollner, who made 2023 serial-killer story Unusual Darling, although “it’s very early days on this; no contracts or attachments as of but, and the Mollner/Powell combo is however one celebration of many.”
We’ll preserve you posted if we hear any extra about Chainsaw—which stands at 9 motion pictures complete within the franchise, although we wish to fake solely the primary two exist—information. However within the meantime, do you suppose this collection wants a brand new film… or ought to individuals simply follow the Hooper classics?
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