Lionsgate Executive Hints ‘Saw’ Series Will Return
Whether you realized it or not, this past Halloween was the first one in seven years without a newSawmovie in theaters. 2010 brought audiences the seventh film,Saw 3D,which was the most expensive of the series thus far. However, while it did receive a nice box office bump thanks to inflated 3D ticket prices, the film failed to perform up to lofty expectations. Producers decided it was time for Jigsaw and his minions to take a break and this year,Paranormal Activity 3was the lone major horror Halloween release.
But the series is far from dead. Lionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns spoke to CNBC Tuesday about the potential merger with Summit Entertainment and dropped the following nugget on the horror community:
I’m sure, some day, you’ll seeSawback in the picture
Saw 8is coming, ladies and gentlemen. Watch the video and read more after the jump.
BothBloody DisgustingandShock Till Ya Droppretty much simultaneously posted this piece of info. Here’s the video, which is 8:30 long. TheSawcomment comes at 2:35.
Saw 3Dhad an ending that pretty much begged for a pseudo-reboot. I won’t spoil it here, but it left the franchise with plenty of potential places to go, which is good, because the story was getting very stale. Six, however, was actually pretty entertaining.
I wasn’t always a fan of theSawseries but I came to really enjoy it in the later years when I realized what it was: A serialized TV show with a new episode on the big screen each year. Each movie was like the next episode in a really gory, really cool horror TV show. Where one movie stopped, the other began. Some overlapped, others illuminated previous stories or foreshadowed upcoming ones. Thinking about the series like that, it was almost forgivable when there was bad installment – like five or seven. And it makes the possibility of an eighth, ninth or tenth film much more inviting.
Shock Till You Dropdropped this bit of insider knowledge into their story, however:
That sounds like they know they’ve reached a crossroads with the franchise and are in no rush to make the eighth film a reality unless it can reinvigorate the series. But, it will happen.
Are you aSawfan? Do you want to see more films?
