Ending Already Written for Saw V
Producers considering back-to-back sequels?
The biggest thrills of the Saw movies are their surprise endings, which seem to keep audiences guessing even more than M. Night Shyamalan's latest creations. That's why the producers of the Saw sequels are starting there and working backwards.
"We just basically locked down the ending about a month ago so it's working off of what happens from there," said Oren Koules. "There's nothing guaranteed. It's really Mark [Burg] and I looking at each other and saying, 'Okay, this story works, let's go.' When it doesn't, we won't go. We'll miss a year, we'll miss two years. It's two things: If we have a story that works and the fans want to see it. It's such a simple equation. Right now we're working on some things on V. There's nothing definitive."
Burg may even have plans to make Saw V and VI at the same time, though coming up with two shocking, surprising scripts for one epic shoot may not be possible (especially now with the WGA in full effect). This plan also hinted at which characters from Saw IV might become the focus of a Saw V.
"It was an idea of ours to try and keep the cast together because it's really difficult with Scott [Patterson] doing a TV series and other people doing other shows that we're going to try to. I'd say it's not out of the question but it's going to be really hard for us to get the screenplay to Saw VI where we want it to be to be able to do it."
If Saw V does go ahead, it looks like Jigsaw will remain a factor. Despite having his head on a morgue scale on the posters for Saw IV, Koules wants actor Tobin Bell back for "as many as he wants."
The boys know that they won't always be making a Saw movie a year. They're prepared to accept their fate when the grosses go down. "I think we'll all know," said Koules. "As of the tracking, as of today and as of everything else right now, we're still rolling. Listen, we're surprised. There's going to be a day we wake up, we don't have a $25 million weekend, we have a $4 million weekend. We're fine. We own the films. We're okay."
Ballsack Enormous
dont even put m. night in the same sentence as those hacks, nights movies don't rely on a stpid twist, its just gravy, saw is all twist, nothing else, nights movies have all the combinations for a good movie not just one hack job of one, the saw twists SUCK too, SCREW SAW
Nov 9 - 12:50 AM
Andrew Brown
Are you kidding me?
"nights movies don't rely on a stupid twist"
Whose movies are you watching? The ONLY thing that Night tries to do is add some pretentious twist to the end of each of his movies as if he's not worthy of writing a real story. Oh wait, it's not actually the 1700's, it's present day and a bunch of people are living in a state park until a mentally retarded Adrian Brody goes on a killing spree and a blind woman has to SPRINT through a forest to find help. Believe me, I HATE the SAW movies even more than M. Night's, but his are terrible as well. Whatever happened to movies like "The Thing," (Carpenter) or "The Fly" (Cronenberg, 1986). Those were movies that sent chills up your spine, using no CGI or cheap scare tactics, just pure horror.
Nov 11 - 05:45 PM