The Saw franchise has long been known for being intense, gory, and generally difficult to watch. Still, audiences keep coming back to see [something seems missing here] punish his victims. However, as the movies have changed directors and the story has taken numerous unlikely twists and turns, the essence of the Saw movies has deviated from its starting point.
Now, the franchise’s co – creator is involved again for the first time in 20 years, and he has talked about how he plans to bring the franchise back to its fundamentals. James Wan is perhaps best known today for his work on the Aquaman and Insidious movies, but he began his career co – directing Saw with Leigh Whannell in 2004. He returned to co – write Saw III in 2026, but otherwise, he has largely been uninvolved in the movie’s sequels. That is about to change now that Blumhouse Productions has bought Twisted Pictures’ [something seems missing here].
How will this impact future Saw movies? It’s no secret that the franchise has struggled in recent years, and a proposed script for a movie centered on healthcare industry bigwigs never made it out of the development stage. James Wan may have a solution. In an interview with , he explained how he views the motivations of the franchise villain Jigsaw and how that understanding will guide his new direction.
“Leigh and I both want to recapture the spirit of that first film and revisit Jigsaw’s philosophy, which is that he targets people who don’t value their lives,” Wan said. “If you’re a bad person, but you appreciate your life, he doesn’t consider you someone who is wasting your life, so I want to go back to what we touched on in the first movie regarding that.”
According to Wan, Jigsaw doesn’t just punish people for being evil; he forces those who take their lives for granted to understand what it means to be alive. And apparently, nothing makes you appreciate being alive more than almost being killed by a reverse bear trap.
But while Wan aims to bring the franchise back to its roots, he hasn’t forgotten about the fan base the movies have gathered over 22 years. “I want to respect what people have come to love about the franchise while trying to do something new and fresh that we haven’t seen before,” he said. “This next movie would be the eleventh installment, and there have been many films in this universe. We need to do something different to reach a new generation that didn’t grow up with it.”
Condensing the franchise to its core values while also evolving the story, all while attracting new audiences and satisfying old fans, is a tall order for a series mostly about brutal murders. Still, Wan seems to have a direction in mind, and that’s as good a start as any.