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‘Saw’: Lionsgate Begins Developing Next Sequel, ‘Legacy’
Back in 2004 Jigsaw became a household name when Lionsgate carved out a theatrical release for James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s low-budget festival fav Saw.
It was so successful that it became an annual tradition to expect a new Saw sequel each and every October.
The games came to an end with 2010’s Saw 3D (Saw: The Final Chapter), which was pegged as the end of the franchise. Yet, the final scene set up a world that could easily be expanded.
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Since then, Lionsgate has been taking a breather. We’ve reported multiple times that the seventh Saw wasn’t the end, and that the studio has even considered remaking Wan and Whannell’s film that’s one of the most important horror films of all time.
After five years of pitches, and a re-release of the classic back in 2014, Lionsgate has decided to move forward with an eighth film in the franchise, according to a trustworthy tracking board.
Lionsgate has tapped writing duo Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger – the duo behind Sorority Row, Piranha 3D and Piranha 3DD – to pen Saw: Legacy, although there’s no story details at this time.
James Wan, who has gone on to direct Insidious, The Conjuring, Dead Silence and Fast 7, will executive produce with Whannell.
Will Saw: Legacy start at the beginning? Could it follow an entirely new cult of Jigsaw followers? What do you guys think will happen next?!
We already know that this year’s Evil Dead Burn is directly connected to Evil Dead Rise, but will the brand new movie have any connection to the franchise’s more distant past?
According to Evil Dead Burn star Hunter Doohan, there are indeed connections between the new movie and director Sam Raimi’s original trilogy of Evil Dead tales!
Doohan explains in a fresh new chat with Out Magazine that he’s playing a character named Joseph in Evil Dead Burn, who is “researching the lore in the story.”
“Joseph is working on a book about his grandfather’s research,” Doohan reveals in his chat with Out Magazine. “His grandfather knew Professor Knowby.”
Doohan continues, “I loved how this script not only ties back a little bit to Evil Dead Rise — but this movie connects the lore through the whole franchise, which I found really exciting.”
Professor Raymond Knowby is at the very center of the original Evil Dead trilogy, heard on the infamous tape recorder in the original classic and later featured in Raimi’s Evil Dead II.
Professor Knowby found the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis in the ruins of Castle Kandar, bringing the book and its Deadite curse to the cabin in the woods that Ash and friends end up at.
Needless to say, Knowby is one of the most important characters in the mythology of the Evil Dead saga. And it sounds like Evil Dead Burn is bringing it all full circle this Summer.
Sébastien Vaniček’s Evil Dead Burn releases in theaters July 10, 2026.
After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home. As one by one they are transformed into Deadites—turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell—she comes to discover that the vows she took in life… live on even in death.
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