Seth M. Sherwood will work on the prequel
In recent years, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise has been through a reboot (2003), a prequel (2006) and years-later sequel (2013). Now, in its eighth instalment, we’re back in prequel territory as Millennium Films has hired Seth M. Sherwood to write what will be called Leatherface .
Following a brief rights dispute early last year, just after the latest film slew the competition at the US box office and triggered excitable announcements about another, the producers, including Christa Campbell, Lati Grobman and Carl Mazzocone are pushing ahead with Millennium’s plan.
According to The Wrap, the plot is being kept locked away in a scary dank basement, but Sherwood has apparently been tasked to write a tale that will follow Leatherface’s early years in the 1970s. You know: the time he considered poetry as a career and developed a fascination with an Etch A Sketch before picking up his power tool of choice.
How it will – or won’t – tie into last year’s effort is anyone’s guess, especially as the continuity train seems to jump the tracks with every new effort. Millennium wants this one shooting later in the year or early next and is already on the hunt for a director. Sherwood comes from TV and has several film scripts percolating away in development, including an untitled effort for the Blumhouse team and a well-regarded psychological thriller called Interstate 5.
from Empire News
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