SAW Creator Leigh Whannell Not Involved in Chris Rock’s Reboot
Mike Sprague
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This Halloween we will be hit with Chris Rock’s reboot of James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s horror series Saw co-starring Samuel L. Jackson and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman (St. Agatha).
And today, Whannell reveals he has nothing to do with Rock’s reboot.
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Whannell tells Collider: “I was on a location scout for this movie and I got a phone call from one of the guys at Lionsgate who’s a friend of mine and when he told me about Chris Rock, I thought back to a couple of years ago. I was at a film festival party at the Palm Springs Film Festival and my agent, much to my horror, pushed me towards Chris Rock and was like, ‘Say hi to Chris!’ I think I said something lame like, ‘I’m a big fan,’ and he hears that a hundred times a day so he was like, ‘Ok!’ And as he was walking away, his agent said to him, ‘That guy wrote Saw,’ and he like stopped in his tracks, came back and was like, ‘You wrote Saw?’ And suddenly he was super interested and he said to me, ‘I would love to make a Saw film.’ And I thought it was just something that you say at a party, you know? Like, ‘Hey! I’d love to dye my hair pink, too!’ You just say it because the person’s got pink hair, you don’t wanna make them feel bad. Turns out, he was serious. That was not an offhand thing that he said. He really did wanna make a Saw film.”
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Are you excited about Chris Rock’s Spiral even if original Saw co-creator Leigh Whannell isn’t involved? Let us know below in the comments or on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!
Spiral: From the Book of Saw 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 will unleash it on May 15, 2020.
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