Texas Chainsaw 3D was met with a mostly negative response when it opened early last year, but it did still manage to more than double its $20 million budget. Millennium Films are now going to take another stab at relaunching the franchise, this time with a prequel set before Tobe Hooper’s original 1974 film.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is rightly considered a horror classic, so how well another movie closely tied to the original will be received by longtime fans remains to be seen.
Plot details are sparse right now, but Leatherface (as it is currently being called) will take place in the 1970s and will serve as an origin story of sorts as we learn more about the iconic killer’s teenage years.
Seth M. Sherwood is writing the Texas Chainsaw prequel, and a director is expected to be announced within the next few weeks. Sherwood has a number of horror projects in the works and was mentioned on the 2012 Blood List, the horror version of the Black List featuring some of Hollywood’s most well-liked unproduced screenplays.
True Detective’s Alexandra Daddario starred in last year’s Texas Chainsaw 3D as Leatherface’s long-lost cousin, but it’s not clear whether she would return due to the messy timeline of the series.
