{"id":339426,"date":"2026-03-10T21:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/339426\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:37:11","slug":"darren-lynn-bousman-shares-pitch-for-unmade-saw-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/339426\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Lynn Bousman shares pitch for unmade Saw sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Spiral \u2013 Darren Lynn Bousman has directed a lot of movies in the Saw franchise, but during a recent chat with Josh Stolberg (who co-wrote the scripts for Jigsaw, Spiral, and Saw X) on an episode of the Darren & Josh Make a Movie podcast<\/a>, Bousman revealed that he once presented Lionsgate with a pitch for a Saw sequel that was never made. A story that could be described as \u201cSaw<\/a> Meets Fight Club<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pitch<\/p>\n

In the podcast episode, there is some confusion between Bousman and Stolberg as to whether this pitch would be an \u201cunmade Saw 8\u201d (replacing Jigsaw) or an alternative version of Saw X, or if it would have been the ninth movie, as Bousman says the project pivoted into Spiral territory when Chris Rock revealed that he wanted to work on a Saw movie. Whatever the case, here\u2019s the pitch, as described by Bousman: <\/p>\n

\u201cBasically, the opening scene was the desecration of all the totems from Saw. I had this idea, and I tried to get us to do it in Spiral as well. I think I pitched this to you too. I love this idea that it starts off and you see all of these men, kind of in the way Saw II begins, these SWAT team members getting ready. You see these men putting on the\u2026 what\u2019s it called? Balaclavas. They\u2019re putting on these things. You\u2019re seeing them strap up with guns. Then it cuts to the middle of the night: these black SUVs turning off their lights, stopping the cars. They knock on a door, and then every living character you\u2019ve seen\u2026 so you go to all the characters who have ever lived in a Saw film\u2026. are being executed door to door. Ding-dong, Cary Elwes, boom, boom, drops down. All these characters are being executed. You\u2019re seeing these black SUVs all over, and it\u2019s cutting, cutting, cutting.<\/p>\n

They finally go to this warehouse and go inside. There are all the traps of John Kramer laid out. You\u2019re seeing them basically take the traps out, remove all these things. They finally get to this room, and there\u2019s Billy. You see Billy, and the camera is pushing in on Billy, pushing in on Billy. As they push in, you see them take Billy and throw him into a duffel bag. Cut to the cover of darkness. They\u2019re going into a trash compactor dumpster, and all these things are being thrown in. The last thing that\u2019s thrown in is Billy. It\u2019s crushing, then it smashes, and then it says (the title).<\/p>\n

The idea was that they were going to try to kill Jigsaw\u2019s message by removing anyone who could have been an accomplice, any piece of iconography that people could have worshipped. The premise was Fight Club. Four or five years pass, and Fight Club-style arenas pop up all around the United States and the world, where YouTube videos get put up. It started right after Jigsaw\u2019s stuff gets crushed. <\/p>\n

It cuts to a guy in a suit walking through a house. He goes into a garage, and it\u2019s all closed off. You see him loosen his tie, take his button-down shirt off, nicely fold it, take his pants off and fold them. There\u2019s a coffin. He opens it, and inside the coffin are spikes lining it. He takes a deep breath, goes inside the coffin, and then it\u2019s rapid-fire Saw style, he\u2019s getting cut and bleeding. You see he\u2019s got to turn his body over and grab a key. You see him struggle, but he eventually gets the key out and unlocks the coffin.<\/p>\n

When the coffin opens, there are all these people around cheering and clapping. They\u2019ve got videos up. Cameras are out. Then it pulls out and we see 100 views, 1,000 views, 10,000 views, a million views, and these are popping up all over the place. They can\u2019t stop Jigsaw\u2019s message because it became viral. So it was kind of a Fight Club thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bousman plotted out the pitch with Abattoir screenwriter Christopher Monfette and even showed animatics to the Lionsgate executives (and those animatics can be seen in the podcast video), but Lionsgate wasn\u2019t into it. \u201cThey said, \u2018We already let you kill Jigsaw once. We\u2019re not going to do it again with this.\u2019 So they never did it.\u201c<\/p>\n

So Bousman didn\u2019t get to make that particular Saw movie. The next one we\u2019re going to see will be from the creators of the original film, James Wan and Leigh Whannell. Wan and Whannell moved on from that franchise after\u00a0Saw III, but when creative disagreements between the producers at Twisted Pictures brought the development of\u00a0Saw XI<\/a>\u00a0to a screeching halt, Blumhouse Productions swooped in and picked up the rights to the franchise. And since Blumhouse recently merged with Wan\u2019s production company Atomic Monster, they\u2019re bringing Wan and Whannell back into the picture.<\/p>\n

What do you think of Bousman\u2019s pitch for the unmade Saw sequel? Let us know by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n

\"JoBlo<\/p>\n

\n Subscribe to our weekly newsletter\n <\/p>\n

\n Get the latest movie and TV news, first looks, reviews, and interviews, straight from the JoBlo crew to your inbox. <\/p>\n

Source:
\n Darren & Josh Make a Movie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Spiral \u2013 Darren Lynn Bousman has directed a lot of movies in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[22646,22647,155617,93,61,60,270,115354],"class_list":["post-339426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-aith","tag-arrow-in-the-head","tag-darren-lynn-bousman","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-saw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}