Chris Rocks Saw Reboot Will Have Humor, But Still Be Bloody & Gory – Screen Rant

Chris Rock says his Saw movie reboot will definitely include some humor, but is still a proper horror film with plenty of blood and gore. Like Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers, it seems the Saw moviesare incapable of staying permanently dead. The franchise appeared toreach it end (afteran unexpected six sequels) with2010's Saw: The Final Chapter, only to return in 2017 with a brand-new installment known asJigsaw. Despite earningunflattering reviews, that film went on to gross more than ten times its $10 million budget and has since convinced Lionsgate to headback to the wellonce more.

The nextSaw movie isrumored to betitled The Organ Donor and is based on an original story by Rock, who also stars asa police detective investigating a series of gruesome crimes. Given the multi-hyphenate's background as a standup comedian turned actor and filmmaker, many have wondered if Rock's vision for the twisted horror propertywill play things straight or fall more on the comedic side of the equation. For his part, Rock claimsthere will be comedy, but not as much as some might've been quick to assume, given his involvement.

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Speaking to IGNat a recent Television Critics Association press event, Rock explained why he felt it necessary to include some jokes in his Saw reboot, but not enough to turn the movie into some kind of horror genre parody (a la the Scary Movie franchise). You can read through his comments, below.

"A lot of times I go to a movie or I watch a TV show and I go, Wow, you know, two jokes would have made a big difference in that. I love Saw, but I was like wow, it has almost no humor at all. So, it seemed like a good place... good fertile ground... by the way, the new Saw, Ive seen like a rough cut. Its still Saw... its bloody, its gory, but theres like a sprinkling of humor here and there. Were not revamping it, its not Scary Movie, its Saw."

Rock is far from the firstactor-filmmaker best known for their comedy work to try their hand at a horror movie recently. Comedic talents like Jordan Peele and Danny McBride have also cut their teeth on horror films of late, with Peele writing and directing both the Oscar-winning Get Out and Us, and McBride co-writing 2018's Halloween sequel-reboot. In all of these cases, their movies included a numberof funny moments that played to their creatives' strengths, yet never took things too far and were very much thrillers at the end of the day. It sounds like Rock has something similar in mind with his Saw reboot. If anything,his comments suggest his detective character mayresort to some gallows humor,as a way of coping psychologically with the utterly horrific crimes he's forced to investigate.

Furthermore, theSaw reboot is being directed by Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II-IV) from a script by Jigsaw writers Pete Goldfinger and JoshStolberg, so it's not like Rock has surrounded himself with people who specialize in comedies. The previous Saw movies have been parodied and made fun ofby other films and TV shows many times over the last sixteen years, but they themselves have never crossed into horror-comedy territory the way other properties have (like the Chucky and Leprechaun franchises). That would kind of go against these movies' conceit of testing their characters' will to live by subjecting them to truly disturbing traps and scenarios to escape from. Hopefully, then, Rock will find a way of making Saw genuinely scary again while also includingjust enough humor toavoid coming off as self-serious.

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Source: IGN

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Sandy Schaefer is Screen Rant's Movie Reviews Editor and an Associate News Editor.

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