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RUMOR CONTROL: Balaguero, Plaza to Return for ‘REC 3’?
UPDATED RUMOR CONTROL: Contrary to what the directors told Bloody Disgusting this past fall (in this interview), late last night Dread Central reported that Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza would once again be getting behind the camera for REC 3. The directors told us that they had no intention on directing and only plan on producing with Filmax. Spanish website Aullios contacted Filmax who immediately debunked Dread’s story. “We have been in touch with Filmax and have told us that the news is false and which is another of many rumors that are published in recent days on the popular horror series homeland.” At this point all we know about REC 3 is NOTHING. So until something official is announced, it’s time to step back and ignore the BS news stories.
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Curry Barker’s ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Movie Aims to Capture the Rawness of the Original Classic
Up next from mega popular Obsession filmmaker Curry Barker is the horror-comedy Anything But Ghosts, which has already wrapped production with a release incoming from Focus Features. In the wake of that film, Barker will turn his attention to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, directing a brand new installment in the legendary horror saga for A24.
Curry Barker’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie has been described as a “reimagining” of the franchise, but he’s aiming to recapture the vibe of Tobe Hooper’s original classic.
Barker tells THR in a new interview this week, “I wouldn’t be interested if I didn’t think I could find a way in that feels fresh and new, while still respecting the original.”
“The canon itself is all over the place, so there’s not much to stay loyal to other than the original,” Barker elaborates. “I want to make a new generation of people scared and give them this feeling of: ‘What if you went on a road trip with your friends and this happened to you?’ I want to capture the rawness and the grounded-ness of the original.”
Barker has stated in other interviews that he wants to make a Chainsaw movie that’s more than just Leatherface running around with a chainsaw hacking people up, and his comments have seemed to suggest that he’s going to be leaning into Leatherface’s family and other elements from the ’74 original that became less central to the franchise in recent years.
Roy Lee and Steven Schneider of Spooky Pictures will produce A24’s new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie, along with Stuart Manashil and Exurbia Films’ Pat Cassidy, Ian Henkel, and Kim Henkel. Ben Ross of Image Nation serves as executive producer.
Curry Barker’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie is only part of A24’s grand plans for the franchise. A television series from A24, JT Mollner, and Glen Powell is also in the works.
Strange Darling filmmaker and The Long Walk screenwriter JT Mollner is spearheading the TV series based on the iconic horror property. Glen Powell will executive produce.
In the 1974 genre-defining masterpiece from Tobe Hooper, five youths traveling through rural Texas fall prey to a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibalistic family.
Stay tuned for much more on Curry Barker’s Chainsaw Massacre as we learn it.
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