Greg Hoffman, the Producer at Lions Gate, has talked on Coming Soon about the script for Saw 2, and it’s certainly interesting and could go either way.
Hoffman said it will be based largely on an unrelated horror script his company, Evolution Entertainment, bought from another script writer. The central character in the original, a sadistic killer called Jigsaw, will be written into the script…
…We quickly realised it (the new script) was a natural to become a sequel. Some (characters) are coming back, some aren’t. It’s mostly brand new characters, but there’s a couple of people coming back.
Mmm…they’ve taken a script they already had and have worked it into the Saw 2 title. Disaster or success, I’m not too sure, and although we really will have to wait and see and hope, it does lean towards disaster for me already. Shoehorning a script into a sequel title? Get your comments in!
However, there is still hope on the horizon. Hoffman went on to talk about the involvement of the original team, James Wan and Leigh Whannel:
“The boys are attached as executive producers and we’ll deal with that in the next few weeks in terms of their involvement and who is going to be directing,”
So they still could direct? When they previously talked about it the suggestion was that they wouldn’t want to, but let’s just hope it all comes together and works as well as the original, if not better!
