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As a caller filmmaker offering a caller return connected Leatherface much than 50 years aft nan original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Curry Barker precocious teased his plans for nan reboot.
The YouTube comedian and filmmaker, who was announced arsenic nan writer and director of nan upcoming reimagining past month, explained that he’s intrigued by “the uncomfortability of nan family” that raised nan chainsaw-wielding serial killer.
“I deliberation of it arsenic respecting nan root material,” he told Total Film. “I perfectly emotion nan original film, but I want to do thing that’s different. I’m not gonna stray distant excessively acold from what we know, but conscionable making it stronger.”
Barker added, “Really, I want to thin into nan uncomfortability of nan family. I want to thin into nan rawness of what’s going connected there. There’s immoderate really messed up worldly happening astatine that farm. I genuinely consciousness there’s truthful overmuch imaginable for that conception that has not been realized.”
Noting that nan 2003 Marcus Nisplel-helmed remake “was my favorite” of nan franchise, Barker recalled, “It was for illustration my first scary movie I’d ever seen erstwhile I was a kid, and I really deliberation it’s a decent remake.”
“Still, there’s truthful overmuch that that conception hasn’t really leaned into aliases hasn’t dived [into],” said Barker. “So, I really consciousness for illustration there’s a batch to explore, truthful I’m really excited astir it.”
Last month, Deadline reported that Barker has been tapped to constitute and direct nan Texas Chainsaw Massacre reimagining from A24 (seperate from nan studio’s TV bid successful nan works from JT Mollner and producers Glen Powell and Dan Cohen astatine Barnstorm).
The franchise primitively began pinch nan 1974 scary classical The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, created by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel and starring Gunnar Hansen arsenic nan murderous Leatherface.
