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Sadly, this iteration of Chainsaw didn’t come to pass. “’… okay.’ We something totally new, but also something fun for the audience. Can’t you just have some kids in a van, and they show up at Leatherface’s house?’” How the hell did the producers not go for this first pitch?!?! “ It was too high concept,” Marcus adds. Scarface’… truly, Deb and I were giddy, like two kids.” And the producer they were pitching to? “They were like, ‘What else you got?’” I’m telling you, we stood there, and when we said ‘ Leatherface vs. “ It was this totally insane film, mostly set in Mexico, with the Sawyers going up against the Mexican drug cartel to get back their kin.
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A Chainsaw film that positions the Sawyers as the de facto heroes, including Leatherface acting as an antihero of sorts, with a setting and horror/crime angle that diverges wildly from what we’ve seen from the series up until this point.
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“This cop goes back to the rest of the Sawyers and says, ‘One of ours has been taken.’ They load up the truck full of the remaining Sawyers, including Bubba, and they cross the border into Nuevo Laredo to go get their kid. I don’t remember what our key was, but there was a physical clue that this was a Sawyer, that this young woman was the baby that was stolen. As Marcus notes, a Texas Chainsaw franchise trope has it that members of the family work in law enforcement, so – “One of the Sawyers works in the police department, and this thing from the FBI comes over and he gets this image of this woman, and there is something about her. When the drug cartel in Nuevo Laredo discovers this, they kidnap the family, the kids, and Heather. They’ve just had a horrible winter in Chicago, so they’re all really excited.”Įventually, we find out that Heather’s boyfriend has been running drugs up from Texas, which is the real reason why he’s taking the trip. “Twenty years later, Heather has a boyfriend at the Art Institute in Chicago who’s a rich kid whose parents have a summer place down in Mexico in Nuevo Laredo, and they’re all going to go for spring break down to Mexico because they’ve got this incredible pool, and they kind of all hang out poolside and blah, blah, blah.

“The whole massacre of the Sawyers, the baby is kidnapped, all of that was still the same. This child, Heather, grows up and becomes the tale’s heroine (as played by Alexandra Daddario in the 2013 film). The Sawyer clan is slain, their home burned down, and their youngest is taken by a mob member and raised as their own.
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“Our first pitch opened the same way.” The same way being how the eventual movie began – just after the events of the 1974 original, local police and a lynch mob descend upon the Sawyer home and open fire on the deranged family (this would include the Sawyers we were introduced to in the original film, and a number of other extended family members who have arrived to help their kin). “The two page document was our second pitch,” Marcus explains.

Please read on for the screenwriting duo’s initial bold idea for where Texas Chainsaw might have gone.

Sullivan also discussed a tantalizing original pitch that predated their original two-page document which led to their hiring. In addition to detailing the project’s inception and the many differences between their draft and the finished film, Mr. In yesterday’s installment of Larval Ink, we learned the history behind the original draft of Texas Chainsaw 3D penned by Adam Marcus and Debra Sullivan.
