As a new filmmaker offering a new take on Leatherface more than 50 years after the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Curry Barker recently teased his plans for the reboot.<\/p>\n
The YouTube comedian and filmmaker, who was announced as the writer and director<\/a> of the upcoming reimagining last month, explained that he\u2019s intrigued by \u201cthe uncomfortability of the family\u201d that raised the chainsaw-wielding serial killer.<\/p>\n More from Deadline<\/p>\n \u201cI think of it as respecting the source material,\u201d he told Total Film<\/a>. \u201cI absolutely love the original film, but I want to do something that\u2019s different. I\u2019m not gonna stray away too far from what we know, but just making it stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n Barker added, \u201cReally, I want to lean into the uncomfortability of the family. I want to lean into the rawness of what\u2019s going on there. There\u2019s some really messed up stuff happening at that farm. I genuinely feel there\u2019s so much potential for that concept that has not been realized.\u201d<\/p>\n Noting that the 2003 Marcus Nisplel-helmed remake \u201cwas my favorite\u201d of the franchise, Barker recalled, \u201cIt was like my first horror movie I\u2019d ever seen when I was a kid, and I actually think it\u2019s a decent remake.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cStill, there\u2019s so much that that concept hasn\u2019t really leaned into or hasn\u2019t dived [into],\u201d said Barker. \u201cSo, I actually feel like there\u2019s a lot to explore, so I\u2019m really excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n Last month, Deadline reported that Barker has been tapped to write and direct<\/a> the Texas Chainsaw Massacre reimagining from A24 (seperate from the studio\u2019s TV series in the works<\/a> from JT Mollner and producers Glen Powell and Dan Cohen at Barnstorm).<\/p>\n The franchise originally began with the 1974 horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, created by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel and starring Gunnar Hansen as the murderous Leatherface.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a new filmmaker offering a new take on Leatherface more than 50 years after the original Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[97521,102230,27,62605,29,28,102232,102231],"class_list":["post-276308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-curry-barker","tag-leatherface","tag-texas","tag-texas-chainsaw-massacre","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-the-youtube","tag-uncomfortability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}