One other Pointless Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath Reboo...

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 usually, although, the cash-grab intentions shine by way of the whole lot else.

Probably the most ceaselessly 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 like the makes an attempt that preceded it, however that doesn’t imply another person isn’t going to provide it one other attempt.

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 achieved too many horror initiatives, 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 massive trades is digging into it. In keeping 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 few 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 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 patrons … packages are preemptively being dropped at Verve.”

A kind of packages is outwardly 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 maintain you posted if we hear any extra about Chainsaw—which stands at 9 films whole 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 folks simply persist with the Hooper classics?

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