After the box office flop of Spiral, the producers of Saw X explain why it was important to get [...]
The Saw movie franchise has taken a long, winding road to get to the tenth film, Saw X, including two stalled attempts to reboot the franchise. Jigsaw attempted a surprise prequel, with a story about one of John Kramer/Jigsaw's first trap houses, and his secret first apprentice. It made modest profits for a Saw movie but wasn't enough to convince Lionsgate to continue with that approach.
Set between Saw II and Saw III, Saw X is an interquel that sees John Kramer seek a cure for his terminal cancer from a research group in Mexico. Turns out, however, those"scientists" are actually scammers – scammers who have the grave misfortune of picking one of the most diabolical and violent killers in the world to mess with.
"Chris Rock goes, 'Oh, you work at Lionsgate? I love your Saw movies. I got an idea for one.'" Burg explained. He went on to describe how originally he and Koules thought to weave Spiral into the already-established saga of the Saw franchise – but the studio pushed it another way:
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