Out of the Trap? Blumhouse in Talks To Buy Saw Franchise From Twisted Pictures

For those of america who were devastated that the powers that beryllium would fundamentally conscionable propulsion our feline John Kramer successful the trash, you’ll beryllium blessed to cognize that Jigsaw himself mightiness inactive beryllium coming back. According to reports, the Saw franchise is successful talks to beryllium sold to Blumhouse aft the 11th installment was softly cancelled backmost successful March.

The studio, which has made a sanction for itself implicit the years by becoming a cornerstone of mainstream fearfulness filmmaking, is presently making a woody to instrumentality implicit the Twisted Pictures broadside of the franchise, which has been helmed by producers Mark Burg and Oren Koules since the precise archetypal installment successful 2004. The banner has owned the rights to Saw alongside Lionsgate, which has been distributing the films from the beginning, and some brands are present synonymous with the franchise.

However, it seems similar those days are astir over. Say what you volition astir the determination — and considering Blumhouse doesn’t person the champion way grounds erstwhile it comes to producing quality, not quantity, successful caller years, I get it — but determination is 1 beauteous bully happening to travel retired of it if the woody does, successful fact, get sealed.

James Wan — 1 of the creators of the Saw franchise alongside Leigh Whannell, of people — would beryllium getting backmost partial ownership of the communicative helium created if this woody yet goes through. His accumulation company, Atomic Monster, merged with Blumhouse, tally by present legendary fearfulness shaper Jason Blum, successful January 2024. So that means there’s imaginable that we mightiness yet spot different Saw movie that has much nonstop engagement from the creators than we’ve had since Saw III. And honestly? That could beryllium the champion determination for the franchise astatine this point.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Blumhouse and Twisted Pictures person been talking astir this woody for implicit a year, but things chiefly stalled due to the fact that of the dollar magnitude being enactment connected the table. It seems arsenic though that speech has restarted successful a large mode — and we can’t hold to spot what comes of it.

The past Saw movie released was Saw X, which deed theaters successful September 2023, and it remains to beryllium seen wherever the franchise volition spell from here, whether that means we yet get Saw XI oregon possibly adjacent a miniseries oregon TV show. Who knows! Just bring John Kramer back, that’s each we ask!

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.