{"id":109004,"date":"2019-07-09T13:24:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T12:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=109004"},"modified":"2019-07-09T13:24:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T12:24:58","slug":"saw-reboot-adds-samuel-l-jackson-as-chris-rocks-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/saw-reboot-adds-samuel-l-jackson-as-chris-rocks-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Saw reboot adds Samuel L Jackson as Chris Rock&#8217;s dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel L Jackson (<em><strong>Pulp Fiction<\/strong><\/em>, the Marvel Cinematic Universe films)\u00a0has officially joined the cast of Liongate&#8217;s upcoming\u00a0<em><strong>Saw\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>reboot, the studio has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Rock is set to lead the cast as a police detective attempting to solve a string of grizzly murders, while Jackson will play Rock&#8217;s father.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the current cast is made up of Max Minghella as Rock&#8217;s partner William Schenk and Marisol Nichols as Rock&#8217;s boss Captain Angie Garza.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Jackson&#8217;s casting, Chairman of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Joe Drake said: &#8220;We think Samuel L. Jackson and Chris Rock along with Max Minghella and Marisol Nichols make this film completely special in the <em><strong>Saw<\/strong> <\/em>canon and we can\u2019t wait to unleash this unexpected and sinister new story on fans of this franchise. This is next level of<em><strong> Saw<\/strong><\/em> on full tilt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>film is being directed by\u00a0<em><strong>Saw II-IV\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>helmer\u00a0Darren Lynn Bousman, with\u00a0<em><strong>Jigsaw<\/strong><\/em> writers Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger penning the script from a story by Chris Rock.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Saw II-VI<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Saw 3D\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and\u00a0<em><strong>Jigsaw\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>producers Oren Koules and Mark Burg are returning the produce the film. Executive producers on board include Rock, long-time\u00a0<em><strong>Saw\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>EP Daniel Heffner and series creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The <em>Saw\u00a0<\/em>reboot doesn&#8217;t yet have a release date. Get all the latest horror news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Rock&#8217;s Saw reboot has added Samuel L Jackson to the cast <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":109005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[2153],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-09-at-13.18.26.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}