When Blumhouse acquired the Saw franchise it allowed creators James Wan and Leigh Whannel to return to the franchise that kickstarted their iconic careers and today some exciting Saw XI news has been unveiled.
Recently during a Sundance screening of the original before James Wan spoke to Letterboxd about his involvement in the 11th instalment in the franchise James came out and said something very exciting for Saw fans across the globe.
“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.
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 expressed a great interest in making this film something that would reach out to a new generation that didn’t grow up with the franchise.
Saw XI is in early development but it’s a very exciting time to be a Saw fan.
