14 DAY TRIAL // “Saw 3D” or “Saw VII” for those who saw it in 2D was thought and marketed as the final installment in the long-lasting and very successful franchise of the same name. As it turns out, fans are yet to see the last of the Jigsaw killer.
As we also noted on several occasions and as producers made it clear from the very start, “Saw 3D” aimed to wrap up all loose ends because the time had come for the franchise to bow out after years of entertaining fans and making a killing at the box office.
After all, considering that Jigsaw actually died halfway in the franchise, it’s a wonder it lasted this long in the first place, it was said at the time.
Nevertheless, there’s still a pretty good chance that “Saw” will return, even if not in the same form fans have come to know and, obviously, love.
James Wan and Leigh Whannell, who wrote and directed the original “Saw” in 2004, but only acted as producers on some of the most recent installments, were recently at the Kapow Comic-Con in London, where they let it slip that the franchise is not dead – completely.
Chances are good it will come back in a different format, but what’s clear at this point is that no one can rule out the possibility of another “Saw” film.
“We would want to do something that is a bit of a different take. That’s probably what it would take,” Whannell says in an interview cited by MovieWeb.
Wan agrees: as long as fans keep paying money to see “Saw” movies regardless of what critics say, that door is never closed – and certainly not barred shut, as marketing for “Saw 3D” made it appear.
“I would say you can always count on capitalism, guys. That’s all I have to say,” Wan says in the same interview, refraining from dishing out more details on the project (that he may or may not have).
“It is finished for now, but the fact that it’s such a huge, well-known franchise, means that it’s going to come back at some point,” Wan adds.
Even so, while critics were never a fan of the later “Saw” films (they did appreciate the first couple of them), fans too found the “final” installment a bit of a letdown.