Texas Chainsaw Massacre Show and Movie on the Way from A24

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre yet has much state successful the tank, arsenic A24 has started moving connected a TV bid and movie based connected the iconic fearfulness franchise.

The institution down Marty Supreme and Euphoria is said to person kick-started a caller tally of projects acceptable successful 1 of horror’s astir brutal universes aft acquiring the rights done a tense bidding warfare (via The Hollywood Reporter). Expect to spot the TV bid instrumentality signifier first, though crippled details, merchandise dates, and casting accusation for some projects stay nether wraps for now.

Although overmuch of its originative squad is inactive coming together, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre amusement has recovered assistance successful Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell and The Long Walk writer JT Mollner. The erstwhile is decidedly champion known for his enactment arsenic an histrion but volition lone service arsenic an enforcement shaper connected the bid via his Barnstorm banner, with Mollner attached arsenic a director.

“The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is 1 of my favourite films,” Powell said successful a statement. “It defined a procreation of fearfulness films and implicit fractional a period aft its release, it remains 1 of the definitive movies of my location state. I’m honored to person Barnstorm assistance bring successful a caller section for specified an iconic rubric and franchise. With a marquee location successful A24 and visionary filmmaker with JT Mollner, alongside our apical support producing partners, I couldn’t person dreamed of a amended squad for specified a imagination property.”

Powell and Mollner volition beryllium joined by enforcement producers Roy Lee and Steven Schneider for Spooky Pictures, Stuart Manashil, Ben Ross, and Barnstorm's Dan Cohen. Exurbia Films’ Ian Henkel and Pat Cassidy are progressive arsenic producers, with archetypal Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie co-writer Kim Henkel besides connected committee arsenic an enforcement producer.

“I’ve said publically that I’m not funny successful remaking cleanable films, and the archetypal Texas Chainsaw Massacre is simply a cleanable film,” Mollner added. “[Director and co-writer] Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel created thing bold, transgressive, and genuinely seminal that holds up adjacent contiguous arsenic the golden modular for horror. When the accidental for a agelong signifier exploration into this satellite arose, I saw it arsenic a caller mode in, arsenic good arsenic a mode to grant the existing folklore. I can’t ideate amended partners for this attack than A24. This is genuinely an honor.”

Most of the aforesaid unit is successful the opening stages of revving up the latest Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie installment with A24. Mollner is sticking to the series, though, and volition not beryllium progressive successful immoderate the caller movie ends up being.

Leatherface and the remainder of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre household person been quiescent successful caller years. The archetypal movie made headlines upon its merchandise successful 1974 owed to its relentless and brutal horror, rapidly establishing it arsenic 1 of the much unsocial entries successful the genre ever. What followed were decades of sequels, reboots, and spinoffs, with the astir caller being Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie successful 2022.

Although the franchise’s chainsaw-wielding behemoth has travel to video games successful the past, the bid has ne'er made a due leap to television. While we hold to spot what an episodic Leatherface communicative looks like, you tin cheque retired our 5/10 reappraisal of the 2022 reboot.

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