CHAINSAW 2 already being sharpened

By Patrick Sauriol     October 20, 2003
Source: Variety

When the first movie makes $29 million dollars on its opening weekend, and it only cost one-third that to make, you better believe the film's creators will be talking sequel before the trades hit the street Monday morning. And that's precisely what happened: today's edition of Variety mentions that THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE producers are already talking about making a sequel to their box office hit. Platinum Dunes producers Mike Fleiss and Michael Bay are already speaking with New Line Cinema about doing CHAINSAW 2, although all the planning is still at the very early stages (i.e. money discussion.)

Also mentioned in the Variety report was another horror project Fleiss has got going, a new take on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde thought up by the hottest horror writer working in comic books today, Steve Niles. Niles is the dude behind 30 DAYS OF NIGHT as well as the Frankenstein homage WAKE THE DEAD. Now that he's also got a spin on Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde yarn, can a werewolf story be long in coming from Niles' word processor?


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