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[Trailer] Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson Investigate New Murders in ‘Spiral: From the Book of Saw’
There was a time when we pretty much knew what to expect from the films in the Saw franchise, with eight in total released by Lionsgate between 2004 and 2017. But that all changed when it was announced that Chris Rock(!) had come up with the concept for the latest installment in the franchise, a film he was also set to both star in and executive produce.
Well the wait for our first look is over today, as Lionsgate has just debuted the official teaser trailer for director Darren Lynn Bousman‘s Spiral: From the Book of Saw!
Bousman, who directed Saw II, Saw III and Saw IV, returns to the franchise with Spiral, which stars Chris Rock as a police detective investigating a series of grisly crimes. The trailer kicks off with Rock’s character, Detective Banks, getting called to the scene of a gruesome murder, and it’s revealed that the killer has been specifically targeting cops. The killer’s M.O. looks to be leaving behind red spirals at the crime scenes, which would seem to be a reference to the pattern on the cheeks of Jigsaw’s right-hand-man, the creepy puppet known as Billy.
Samuel L. Jackson is playing the father of Rock’s character, and he appears in the trailer as well. A couple traps are teased, including a callback to the original one that started it all.
The trailer, which features a haunting, slowed down version of the franchise’s iconic theme, reminds more of David Fincher’s Se7en than it does any Saw movie we’ve seen before, and that’s very much a compliment. How does this new killer connect to the previous events of the franchise? And will Jigsaw himself (Tobin Bell) be making any sort of appearance in the movie?
We’ll find out this coming May. In the meantime, watch the teaser below.
A sadistic mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in SPIRAL, the terrifying new chapter from the book of SAW. Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran (Samuel L. Jackson), brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks (Chris Rock) and his rookie partner (Max Minghella) take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.
Spiral was written by Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger, from a story by Chris Rock.
The franchise returns to the big screen on May 15, 2020.
If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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