One other Pointless Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath ...

Horror remakes and reboots are simply a part of the Hollywood style panorama lately; generally, a recent eye utilized to acquainted supply materials can yield a triumphant win, one latest instance being Evil Dead Rise. Extra typically, although, the cash-grab intentions shine via every thing else.

One of the crucial often burned franchises can also be one in all horror’s oldest: The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath. The most recent attempt to recapture that 1974 Tobe Hooper magic was a complete bust, very similar to the makes an attempt that preceded it, however that doesn’t imply another person isn’t going to provide it one other strive.

At the 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 finished too many horror initiatives, he did get away 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 massive trades is digging into it. Based on 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 recent mission involving cinema’s most well-known cannibal crew.

Nevertheless, a Verve consultant was very mild on particulars when chatting with the commerce; they mentioned 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 delivered to 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 get together of many.”

We’ll preserve you posted if we hear any extra about Chainsaw—which stands at 9 motion pictures whole within the franchise, although we prefer to fake only the first two exist—information. However within the meantime, do you suppose this collection wants a brand new film… or ought to folks simply stick to the Hooper classics?

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