{"id":154754,"date":"2025-09-13T21:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/154754\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:28:07","slug":"we-might-be-heading-toward-an-a24-texas-chainsaw-massacre-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/154754\/","title":{"rendered":"We might be heading toward an A24 Texas Chainsaw Massacre TV show"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past couple of months<\/a>, we\u2019ve been tracking the bidding war<\/a> happening around\u00a0The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as various horror-minded studios have ponied up to the franchise\u2019s tastefully set dinner table to try to get a piece of Tobe Hooper\u2019s horror legend. Nobody\u2019s won just yet, but Deadline\u00a0reports<\/a> that A24 has apparently moved out in front, with an eye toward turning the franchise into a TV show, of all things.<\/p>\n

The (semi-) recent urge to turn well-known slasher properties into elevated horror TV spectacles can\u2019t help but seem a bit odd to us, if only because the slasher ethos seems frankly at odds with the sort of fleshing out that TV\u2019s relaxed pace naturally affords. We were excited enough to see Bryan Fuller\u2019s version of Friday The 13th\u00a0TV series\u00a0Crystal Lake, back before it got rejected by A24<\/a>, but that was more about Fuller\u2019s idiosyncrasies than the deep mythos of Jason Voorhees. (The show is now being retooled for Peacock by Brad Caleb Kane.) Bates Motel\u00a0got some traction out of diving deep on\u00a0Psycho (mostly thanks to Freddie Highmore and Vere Farmiga), and shows like\u00a0Ratched\u00a0or\u00a0Castle Rock\u00a0found occasional sparks of life by fleshing out characters from iconic works. But part of the point, and the potency, of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u00a0is that it\u2019s not especially deep: Every franchise installment<\/a> that has tried to do more with it than \u201csome kids wander just slightly too far off the beaten path and run straight into extremely human, extremely\u00a0sharp\u00a0horror\u201d has floundered and flailed.<\/p>\n

But we digress: A24 has an eye on doing the TV series thing, reportedly with a team-up between\u00a0Strange Darling\u00a0director JT Mollner,\u00a0Weapons<\/a>\u00a0producer Roy Lee, and, weirdly, Glen Powell, who would produce, but not star, in the show. No plot details about the show have been leaked, but common sense suggests it would dive deeper into Leatherface and his extremely fucked-up family, who prey (pretty literally) on anyone unfortunate enough to end up in their radius. (You could\u00a0make a show more focused on the victims, we guess, but life expectancies in this version of rural Texas aren\u2019t typically robust enough to support long-term character building.) The show isn\u2019t the only production A24 might use the rights for, though; Lee might also pitch a film version for Netflix. (The streamer was the franchise\u2019s most recent film home, playing host to the poorly received 2022 installment<\/a> from David Blue Garcia.)<\/p>\n

Other suitors for the\u00a0TCM\u00a0rights have included Oz Perkins\u2014who\u2019s apparently still in the race\u2014and Jordan Peele, who dropped out of contention pretty early on.<\/p>\n

Everything is bigger in Tobe Hooper\u2019s deranged The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2<\/a>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3-D, blah blah blah<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the past couple of months, we\u2019ve been tracking the bidding war happening around\u00a0The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-154754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}