One other Pointless Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath Reboot Could Be on the Approach

Horror remakes and reboots are simply a part of the Hollywood style panorama as of late; generally, a contemporary 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 by means of every little thing else.

One of the regularly burned franchises can be one in every of 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 present it one other strive.

At the very least there’s an intriguing film star hooked up 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 films, and although he hasn’t carried out too many horror initiatives, he did escape on the TV horror-comedy sequence 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. In accordance with the story, “studios and filmmakers” alike have approached Verve, which has “repped the rights for the slasher sequence created by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel since 2017,” a couple of contemporary venture involving cinema’s most well-known cannibal crew.

Nevertheless, a Verve consultant was very mild on particulars when talking to 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 type 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 occasion of many.”

We’ll hold you posted if we hear any extra about Chainsaw—which stands at 9 films complete within the franchise, although we prefer to fake only the first two exist—information. However within the meantime, do you suppose this sequence wants a brand new film… or ought to folks simply keep on with the Hooper classics?

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