{"id":211260,"date":"2025-10-09T08:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/211260\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:24:13","slug":"jason-blum-missed-out-on-texas-chain-saw-but-hes-still-got-high-horror-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/211260\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Blum Missed Out on ‘Texas Chain Saw’ But He’s Still Got High Horror Hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Blumhouse celebrates 15 years<\/a> of bringing horror to audiences, studio head Jason Blum looks back on some of his biggest triumphs (M3GAN) and misfires (M3GAN 2.0<\/a>) in a new interview, which also draws out some of his more recent regrets\u2014and his plans and hopes for the future. One thing we won\u2019t be seeing, apparently, is a Blumhouse take on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre after the company came up short in the recent IP bidding war<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were in the mix. The deal isn\u2019t closed, but we probably won\u2019t get it,\u201d Blum told Variety<\/a>; the trade noted that A24, with a producing team that includes Glen Powell, is the clear frontrunner. There\u2019s no elaboration on what a Blumhouse Texas Chain Saw might have looked like, but Blum noted, \u201cI like taking IP that people are cynical about and turning expectations on their head.\u201d<\/p>\n

That definitely happened with 2018\u2019s Halloween\u2014though the excitement over David Gordon Green\u2019s reboot trilogy faded with each new entry, and Blumhouse is no longer steering the good ship Michael Myers. \u201cWe don\u2019t own the rights anymore. I had a three-picture deal,\u201d Blum explained, though he\u2019s not closed off to future opportunities: \u201cI would do another Hallo\u00ad\u00adw\u00adeen movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

A franchise Blumhouse does have in its stable now is Saw<\/a>, though there are no firm details yet on what shape that long-running series will take next. \u201cIt\u2019s really hard to make 10 movies in a franchise\u2014I don\u2019t take that away from the original series\u2019 producers. And I\u2019m grateful to them for allowing us to continue,\u201d Blum said. \u201cMy creative outlook is what I always preach: get the people who made the magic in the first place more involved. James Wan [the original director] will be hugely involved. That\u2019s how we\u2019re going to reinvent it.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Blum\u2019s dream projects\u2026 can you guess? Take a wild guess.<\/p>\n

\u201cFriday the 13th and Freddy Krueger, those are my two white whales,\u201d he told Variety, which pointed out the rights for both Friday and A Nightmare on Elm Street are tied up elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re always haggling. I make a run at them every day. I will never give up the quest,\u201d Blum said. (Presumably that means he\u2019s talked to team Jason Universe<\/a>.) \u201cAnd if they make one without me, I\u2019ll chase the next movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Blumhouse celebrates 15 years of bringing horror to audiences, studio head Jason Blum looks back on some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[21833,88,206],"class_list":["post-211260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-blumhouse","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211260","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=211260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}