{"id":598869,"date":"2026-04-22T03:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/598869\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T03:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:51:10","slug":"texas-chainsaw-massacre-a24-remake-to-be-directed-by-curry-barker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/598869\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ A24 Remake To Be Directed by Curry Barker"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn regards to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/a> feature rights won by A24<\/a>, Obsession director Curry Barker<\/a> is set to direct and write a reimagined version.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is separate from the A24<\/a> TV series in the works<\/a> from JT Mollner and producers Glen Powell and Dan Cohen at Barnstorm.<\/p>\n

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\n\tBarker, who cut his teeth making YouTube horror pics and saw his TIFF Midnight Madness title Obsession get snapped up by Focus Features for $15M+ as we first told you, is a hot commodity now. Obsession went on to play SXSW and opens in theaters on May 15. It\u2019s about a young couple\u2019s relationship gone seriously toxic after one of them makes a wish to be loved by the other more. <\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: The 60 Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Global Box Office<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tProducers on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre film include Roy Lee and Steven Schneider of Spooky Pictures, and Stuart Manashil and Exurbia Films\u2019 Pat Cassidy, Ian Henkel, and Kim Henkel. Ben Ross of Image Nation will executive produce.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

\n\tVariety first had the news about Barker\u2019s attachment to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In regards to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre feature rights won by A24, Obsession director Curry Barker is set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[17979,82568,88,206,67346,44477],"class_list":{"0":"post-598869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-a24","9":"tag-curry-barker","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-texas-chainsaw-massacre","13":"tag-the-texas-chainsaw-massacre"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598869","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=598869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}