Still not rested from the 5am stint to get the MovieBlog back, but you know what they say “I’ll get all the sleep I need when I’m dead”…which movie? Anyway, let’s get onto some news.
You’ll remember that we’ve talked about Saw 2 quite a few times, and the news of the production has been pretty poor really, indicating that it might just be a really poor cash cow sequel. Well there’s some news out a few days ago that might mean it’s not as bad as we thought. Hollywood Reporter through MovieWeb has the news about the assigned Director:
first-time writer-director Darren Lynn Bousman will direct Saw 2, the sequel to last year’s Halloween release that grossed the studio $55 million domestically.
Bousman, a music-video and commercial director, also wrote the original screenplay for Saw 2 in conjunction with Leigh Whannel, the writer/co-star of the original Saw, and Saw director James Wan.
Honestly now, the news that one of the original writers helped write the sequel is a big boost up from the original news on the script that it was going to be a rehash of another script written before Saw. So this is really good news, and perhaps we might actually see something a bit more intelligent than we thought.
