Tobin Bell Hints at Potential Saw: Legacy Setting?

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While we know for a fact that a lot of filming has taken place for Saw: Legacy, the upcoming eighth entry in the franchise, we don’t know much about the film itself, at least in terms of its plot. We’ve heard rumors that a lot of the film takes place in a farm setting, which would take it outside of the nameless city that the first seven films were set in. If that’s the case, it opens up the series to a whole new set of potential traps and puzzles that victims must endure while also possibly offering an entirely new atmosphere that doesn’t fall into the “grimy, green-tinted” oeuvre that the franchise has consistently given us.

Hinting that there might be a more open setting to Saw: Legacy, Tobin Bell, who played John Kramer, aka “Jigsaw”, in the series, has tweeted out a photo of the Jigsaw puppet laying against the rails of a roller coaster. He captioned the photo, “Next time you’re on a roller coaster…look up. #SawLegacy“.

While this doesn’t offer anything concrete about what we might see in the film, it’s fun to speculate! Could this mean that a portion of the film takes place at a carnival or country fair, a lá the scene where Leatherface chases Heather in Texas Chainsaw 3D? Could this be a reference to an opening stinger?

Now, it should be noted that this image isn’t new. In fact, it’s a promo photo from the 2014 edition of Fright Nights, a horror-themed park experience that was in the UK’s Thorpe Park. With that information, it seems that the best answer here is that Bell was just tweeting out a fun image he found to keep interest in Saw: Legacy high.

But what are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments below!

Tobin Bell, Mandela Van Peebles, Laura Vandervoort, Brittany Allen, Callum Keith Rennie, Matt Passmore, Hannah Emily Anderson, Josiah Black, Shaquan Lewis, Michael Boisvert, and James Gomez star. Brothers Peter and Michael Spierig (Daybreakers, Predestination) direct from a script by Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfiner (Piranha 3D, Piranha 3DD, Sorority Row).

Look for Saw: Legacy, which has been rated R for “grisly bloody violence and torture“, in theaters on October 27th.

Synopsis:
Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one man: John Kramer. But how can this be? The man known as Jigsaw has been dead for over a decade. Or has an apprentice picked up the mantle of Jigsaw, perhaps even someone inside the investigation?

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