With the Saw franchise apparently coming to an end, Twisted Pictures are turning their attentions to bloody pastures new. We reported a while ago that the Saw studio had picked up the rights to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (after they were dropped by Platinum Dunes following the 2003 remake and the 2006 prequel), and now with Jigsaw put to rest, producer Mark Burg is turning his attention to **Leatherface 3D.
The final touches are being scratched into a script by Debra Sullivan and Adam Marcus as we speak. The two previously worked together on the low-budget Val Kilmer Western Conspiracy, and Marcus also wrote and directed Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (except, of course, it wasn't).
The word on the street is that Leatherface 3D picks up right after the end of the Tobe Hooper original (so will we see Leatherface finish dancing with his saw and mooch home?) before jumping forward 35 years. BD have picked up an inkling of a plot involving a cult, which is heartening because it worked so well in the Halloween sequels.
No word of a director yet, although Marcus himself looks like a possibility. Is this a potential Hallowe'en franchise to replace John Kramer and his traps? If that's the plan, it's looking increasingly as if Leatherface will have Paranormal Activity to contend with on an annual basis for a while yet.