Here’s Why Chris Rock Rebooted SAW

Mike Sprague |

Jan 15, 2020

This Halloween we will be hit with – strangely enough – Chris Rock’s reboot of James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s horror series Saw co-starring Samul L. Jackson. And today Rock lets us know what attracted him to the project.

Rock tells Collider: “I was at a friend’s wedding, and they introduced me to the head of Lionsgate. I was like, ‘Lionsgate? Oh, Saw.’ And they called me up. I was just poking fun at the Lionsgate guy about Saw.“

So why did he take the movie on? He says: “You wanna be interested in what you’re doing. I was like, ‘Fargo? That sounds great. That’s an adventure I haven’t been on. I’ve never done a television show before. Okay.’ And then, ‘A horror movie? I’ve never done that.’ Even without art, just in life, you wanna travel and see new things, you wanna meet new people, you wanna try new foods.”

Fair enough.

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Saw rebooted is directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and produced by Oren Koules and Mark Burg from a screenplay written by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger from a story by Chris Rock based on the original film written by James Wan and Leigh Whannell. It stars Chris Rock as Zeke with Samuel L. Jackson as Marcus, Max Minghella as William Schenk, and Marisol Nichols as Capt. Angie Garza. Lionsgate Films will unleash the funny new Saw movie on May 15, 2020.

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