With Blumhouse’s acquisition of the Saw, creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell are returning to the franchise that launched their careers. While at Sundance for the Park City Legacy screening of the 2004 horror classic, Wan spoke to Letterboxd about his involvement in the upcoming eleventh installment in the storied series. “For me to finally […]
With Blumhouse’s acquisition of the Saw, creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell are returning to the franchise that launched their careers.
While at Sundance for the Park City Legacy screening of the 2004 horror classic, Wan spoke to Letterboxd about his involvement in the upcoming eleventh installment in the storied series.
“For me to finally come back to it, I feel I have probably the freshest outlook. I feel I can come back to it with a new perspective whilst knowing that with this next movie I want to hark back to the spirit of the first movie,” says Wan.
“One of the things I really want to do with this next Saw is make it scary again. I want to make a scary Saw — not just gory, but psychologically scarring, like what Leigh and I did in the first movie.
“Leigh and I both want to recapture the spirit of that first film and revisit Jigsaw’s philosophy, which is that he goes after people who don’t appreciate their lives.
He continues, “If you’re a scumbag, but you appreciate your life, he doesn’t see you as someone who’s wasting your life, so I want to go back to what we touched on in the first movie with regard to that.
“At the same time, I want to honor what people have come to love about the franchise, whilst trying to do something fresh and new that we haven’t seen before.”
Wan concludes, “This next movie would be the eleventh installment, and there’ve been lots of films in this world. We need to do something different in order to reach out to a new generation that didn’t grow up with it.”
Saw XI is still in early development, so stay tuned for more as we learn it.
