Nine years ago Jonathan Liebesman directed The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Now that prequel to the remake is being overwritten by another Texas Chainsaw origin story. Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo are behind the cameras this time, and the first poster for Leatherface has just arrived. Reflect on it below.
Like Liebesman's film, the new Leatherface is following the hulking killer's early years in the 1970s, although in this case we'll find him in his teens before he dons the mask and picks up the saw. The hook for the plot is Leatherface escaping from a mental institution along with three other inmates, dragging a kidnapped nurse along with them for "the road trip from Hell".
Sam Strike, Sam Coleman, James Bloor and Jessica Madsen are the escapees, with Vanessa Grasse the nurse. Stephen Dorff plays the deranged Texas lawman chasing them, and Lili Taylor is Leatherface's mom, Vera Sawyer.
The producing roster (Christa Campbell, Lati Grobman, Carl Mazzocone, Avi Lerner) is the same as 2013's awful rebootquel Texas Chainsaw 3D. But Maury and Bustillo previously directed Inside, which makes Leatherface a more interesting prospect than it might have been. The up-and-coming Seth M. Sherwood wrote the screenplay, and the eighth **Texas Chainsaw **is now at the post-production stage for an expected release next year.