Remember how great that Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake was? Oh, that's right, it sucked.
Still, it made $107 million in worldwide box office and a prequel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, was made in 2003. Bloody-Disgusting reports that John Luessenhop, who directed the crime thriller Takers last year, will direct the follow-up Leatherface 3D, which will take place immediately after the Tobe Hooper's original, thereby ignoring the 3 sequels that followed the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre as well as the 2003 remake and prequel. Leatherface 3D will be Luessenhop's first horror movie and third directorial effort overall, but Takers made money, and for the past decade or so, making a Texas Chainsaw movie has only been an attempt at a cash grab, with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 being the only decent sequel.
Stephen Susco wrote the original script for Leatherface 3D back in 2009 when the rights to the Texas Chainsaw franchise shifted from Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes to Twisted Pictures, which produced the Saw movies.
Debra Sullivan and Adam Marcus (writer/director of Jason Goes to Hell) were brought on board a year later to either rewrite Susco's draft or write their own script. Now another B-D report says Kirsten Elms (Hair of the Dog) has been hired to re-tool the script under Luessenhop's guidance.
Reportedly, Leatherface 3D follows a relative coming back to the family and will return to the idea of cannibalism, but after so many drafts or rewrites, who knows what the sequel will be about.
