{"id":88952,"date":"2016-07-12T12:33:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T11:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=88952"},"modified":"2016-07-12T12:35:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T11:35:50","slug":"saw-8-directors-may-have-already-been-chosen-to-play-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/saw-8-directors-may-have-already-been-chosen-to-play-a-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Saw 8 directors may have already been chosen to play a game"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a little while since there was any news about the new Saw<\/em><\/strong> film from Lionsgate, but it looks as though a big piece of information might have been leaked: the names of the directors.<\/p>\n

Bloody Disgusting<\/a> reported a spot by a Reddit<\/a> user on an Ontario Media Development Corporation<\/a> report (yep, bit of a rabbit hole there), which stated that Peter and Michael Spierig would be directing a Lionsgate film called Legacy<\/em><\/strong>, which is the tentative subheading for the latest Saw<\/em><\/strong> movie. It also includes the names of Saw<\/em><\/strong> franchise producers\u00a0Oren Koules and Mark Burg, so there’s not too much distance between those two dots.<\/p>\n

There’s been no official confirmation from Lionsgate and it’s entirely possible that this is all untrue, but the duo would be an interesting choice for the franchise. Their vampire movie Daybreakers<\/em><\/strong> (starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill) was stylish, gory and definitely underrated (OK, not perfect, nobody’s saying perfect), and we loved their brilliant sci-fi Predestination<\/em><\/strong>, which featured a star-making performance from Sarah Snook.<\/p>\n

They’re currently attached to direct Winchester<\/em><\/strong>, a supernatural thriller based on the famous Winchester Mystery House, with Helen Mirren reportedly in talks to star. The plan for Saw: Legacy<\/em><\/strong> is reportedly (yes, a lot of reportedly in this article) to shoot from September to October, so it’s unclear if and how it would impact Winchester<\/em><\/strong> (although Saw movies are notoriously quick to shoot…).<\/p>\n

BD also notes that the Spierigs have a relationship with Lionsgate, as the studio distributed their 2003 debut Undead<\/em><\/strong> and Daybreakers<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If this rumour turns out to be true, we’ll be happy. The Spierigs are filmmakers with a great sense of style who seem to be getting better with each consecutive film. If we’re going to go back to Saw<\/em><\/strong>, we’d prefer it to be in the hands of directors like them. Or Kevin Greutert. Because Saw VI<\/em> <\/strong>is still brilliant.<\/p>\n

Saw: Legacy<\/em><\/strong> is being written by Piranha 3D<\/em><\/strong> and Piranha 3DD<\/em><\/strong>‘s\u00a0Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger, while franchise parents James Wan and Leigh Whannell will executive produce.<\/p>\n

Keep up with the latest horror news with the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’d definitely be happy with this directing team taking on Saw: Legacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":88953,"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":[4988],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/120811-saw-8.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88952"}],"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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}