Horror remakes and reboots are just part of the Hollywood genre landscape these days; Sometimes, a fresh eye applied to familiar resource material can bear fruit A successful winA recent example Bad dead. More often, however, cash-grab wishes shone everything else.
One of the frequently burned franchises is also one of the oldest of horror: The Texas chainsaw massacre. The most recent attempt To regain that the 1974 TOBE Hooper Magic is a total bust, similar to the attempts preceding it, but that does not mean that other people will not give it another test.
At least there's an intriguing movie star attached DeadlineThe report on the Skinface and Potential Return of the Company: Glen Powell. He is a native of Austin, Texas, where Hooper famously shot his two Chainaw movies, and even though he hasn't done many scary projects, he has exploded in the TV horror-comedy series Scream Queens.
Deadline story is less updated, more speculation -haka, but clear some motion around a Texas Chainaw Remake if one of the big trading is digging here. According to the story, the “Studios and Filmmakers” have been the same approach to Verve, which has “rejected the rights for the slasher series created by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel since 2017,” about a fresh project involving the most popular cinema crew.
However, a Verve representative is very light in the details when speaking in trade; They said that a “a multimedia approach for the seminal horror franchise” is in the works, but “Verve has not officially submitted the owner to any film makers, manufacturers or consumers … The packages are preemptively brought to Verve.”
One of the packages seems to be the one involving Powell (as a potential star and manufacturer) and writer-director Jt Mollner, who made a 2023 serial-killer tale Strange darlingAlthough “it's early days in this; no contracts or attachments yet, and the Mollner/Powell Combo is but an interested party of many.”
Keep you posting if we still hear about Chainaw—If standing in nine movies total in the franchise, even if we would like to pretend Only the first two exist—News. But in the meantime, do you think this series needs a new movie … or should people stick to the hooper classics?
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