{"id":440882,"date":"2026-02-23T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/440882\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T07:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:40:15","slug":"what-can-we-expect-from-the-texas-chainsaw-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/440882\/","title":{"rendered":"What Can We Expect from the Texas Chainsaw TV series?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n


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Last year, it was\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0that Legendary Pictures, the company behind the 2022\u00a0Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u00a0film that was released through the Netflix streaming service, had let their rights to make new films in the franchise lapse, so Verve, which represents the rights, were looking to \u201cbuild out a multimedia strategy\u201d for the franchise, with filmmakers, producers, and buyers looking to get involved. It was said that writer\/director JT Mollner (Strange Darling) and producer Roy Lee (It) were among the interested parties, teaming up with A24 for a TV series pitch that had actor Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) hoping to read the script. Five months ago, A24 came out\u00a0the winner<\/a>\u00a0of that bidding war.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, it was officially\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0that there\u2019s a\u00a0Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u00a0TV series in the works at A24, with Glen Powell serving as an executive producer alongside Roy Lee and Steven Schneider of Spooky Pictures, Stuart Manashil, Image Nation\u2019s Ben Ross, Powell\u2019s producing partner Dan Cohen of Barnstorm, and Exurbia Films\u2019 Kim Henkel, who co-wrote the original film and produced several of the follow-ups, in addition to writing and directing\u00a0Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation. Exurbia\u2019s Ian Henkel and Pat Cassidy are producing. JT Mollner is attached to direct.<\/p>\n

While we wait to hear further details on the project, fans are left to ponder how a\u00a0Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u00a0TV series could actually work. The concept doesn\u2019t seem like it would lend itself well to an episodic structure\u2026 but there have been clues that give an idea of what this show might be like, and what sort of story it might be telling.<\/p>\n

An Epic Tale<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s almost a given that we will see a group of people, probably young people, running afoul of the cannibalistic family at the heart of the franchise, giving genre icon Leatherface a chance to carve some more victims up with his chainsaw. If that didn\u2019t happen, there would be a lot of disappointed viewers. But it would be difficult to build a season of television around the simple set-up of the original film: young people wandering into Leatherface\u2019s house and getting knocked off one-by-one. That\u2019s why it looks like this TV series will be digging deeper into the story of Leatherface and his family, giving answers to some mysteries that have been lingering since 1974.<\/p>\n

The biggest hint comes in the final line of the statement Kim Henkel gave about the TV series deal: \u201cIt was a difficult decision, but A24\u2019s embrace of boundary-testing genre film, and its record of working with artists who are inclined to test boundaries made them a compelling choice. Plus, we believe having a great creative and producing team \u2014 JT Mollner, Roy Lee, Dan Cohen and Glen Powell \u2014 in place gives us the best shot at a series that could be genuinely eye-opening and unexpected. There\u2019s an epic tale lurking in the\u00a0Chainsaw\u00a0backstory.\u201c<\/p>\n

As for what that backstory could involve, Osgood Perkins might have spilled some details when he was pursuing the rights during the bidding war. He said, \u201c(The rights holders) really care about Leatherface. There\u2019s a fondness about his character and the idea that he saw bad things when he was younger, and because he is neurodivergent, he had his difficulties processing, and that\u2019s when turned him into a quote \u2018monster.\u2019 It goes back to Frankenstein or wherever you want to be with monsters that are usually the misunderstood, sensitive type. They provided us with a guide book that they had put together. \u2018These are the things that we think are important, these are the things we\u2019d love to see, these are the things we don\u2019t like,\u2019 so on and so forth. One of the things was \u2018Leatherface should never have a love interest.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although we have gotten prequels in the franchise before, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning was a prequel to the 2003 remake rather than the original film, and 2017\u2019s Leatherface, from the producers of Texas Chainsaw 3D, gave Leatherface a backstory that didn\u2019t feel like it lined up with the classic version of the character. The idea that Leatherface \u201csaw bad things when he was younger, and because he is neurodivergent, he had his difficulties processing, and that\u2019s when turned him into a quote \u2018monster\u2019\u201d is something that hasn\u2019t really, properly been brought to the screen.<\/p>\n

The recent Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game was also a prequel to the original film, featuring Leatherface and his brothers from the \u201974 film, along with new family members \/ associates inspired by Henkel\u2019s suggestions. The game centers on a group of college friends who cross paths with the family in April 1973, five months before the events of the first movie.<\/p>\n

Grandpa<\/p>\n

By August 1973, as shown in the first movie, the Slaughter family (as Henkel likes to call them, rather than the Sawyer name given in some follow-ups) consisted of Leatherface, his two brothers (The Cook and The Hitchhiker), the corpse of their grandmother, and their ancient, barely-functioning Grandpa. <\/p>\n

Dialogue informs us that one of the Hitchhiker\u2019s brothers used to work at the local slaughterhouse, and so did their grandfather. \u201cMy family\u2019s always been in meat.\u201d Cook tells us more about Grandpa\u2019s time at the slaughterhouse: \u201cOld Grandpa was the best killer there ever was. Why, it never took more than one lick, they say. Why, he did sixty in five minutes once. They say he could\u2019ve done more if the hook and pull gang could\u2019ve gotten the beeves out of the way faster.\u201c<\/p>\n

It\u2019s likely that the show\u2019s writers will be drawing inspiration solely from the original film, so we probably shouldn\u2019t expect to see any sequel characters show up (sorry, Chop-Top), and there probably won\u2019t be any hints that the family is working for the Illuminati (as indicated in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation), but Cook did have more to say about Grandpa\u2019s slaughterhouse days in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2: \u201cEvery spring, the Atlas Rendering Company used to throw a big barbecue for Grandpa. Oh, he was the master. He was the one and only. He showed us all the business. We was raised in meat. But then, after the glory, here comes the shame. Atlas went for automation. The electrified cages, the cold-steel chutes, the air-powered head hammers. That drove Grandpa crazy, seeing things done like that. The crunching and the grinding, he just couldn\u2019t stand it, no way. So, that was all she wrote. One morning, Grandpa just quit going in. It was the shame.\u201d That goes hand-in-hand with lines in the first movie, where it\u2019s expressed that the family preferred the old-fashioned slaughterhouse approach of bashing animals in the head with sledgehammers rather than using modern air-guns.<\/p>\n

Judging by the things Henkel and the out-of-the-running Perkins said, along with lines in the existing stories, it seems likely that the Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u00a0TV series will give us some information on how Leatherface became the character we know while also showing how the Slaughter family shifted from being slaughterhouse workers to crazed cannibals. And they\u2019ll torment some new victims along the way.<\/p>\n

What do you think of the idea of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u00a0TV series telling \u201can epic tale\u201d of how Leatherface and his family went off the rails? Let us know by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n

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