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

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 latest instance being Evil Dead Rise. Extra usually, although, the cash-grab intentions shine via every little thing else.

One of the vital incessantly burned franchises can be one among 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 attempt.

No less than 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 films, and although he hasn’t performed 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 large 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 challenge involving cinema’s most well-known cannibal crew.

Nevertheless, a Verve consultant was very gentle 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 patrons … 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 get together of many.”

We’ll maintain you posted if we hear any extra about Chainsaw—which stands at 9 films complete within the franchise, although we wish to faux only the first two exist—information. However within the meantime, do you assume this collection wants a brand new film… or ought to individuals simply follow the Hooper classics?

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