![]() Mc) is suddenly threatened, the volatile man-child (now played by Mark Burnham) breaks out his iconic weapon of choice and goes to town on a new group of hapless victims. When the safety and security of the orphanage in which he's been living for the last 50 years (overseen by Alice Krige's oxygen-dependent Mrs. Set in the modern day Lone Star State, Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows a group of ambitious young entrepreneurs who make the rather fatal mistake of wandering into Leatherface's territory. So it was just good to have that Texan backing and that support and he was someone that I could text or call anytime during the production if I had a question about Leatherface behavior. There hasn’t been a Texan on for a while.’ It’s Tobe Hooper, Kim Henkel, and me. "He was just like, ‘Hey, you know, I’m happy to have another Texan on this film. One of the first calls was Kim Henkel, and it was so surprising to get a call from him to hear from the original screenwriter," Garcia recalls. "When I got the job, my phone was ringing for two days straight. Not only that, but Kim Henkel (who co-wrote the OG movie with late director Tobe Hooper) agreed to return as a producer. Molded in the vein of David Gordon Green's recent Halloween reboot, the project ignores all of the franchise continuity, except the lore established by the '74 original. After years of reboots, sequels, and prequels of varying quality, Leatherface would finally return in all his face-stealing glory. Now streaming on Netflix, Garcia's soft reboot - simply titled Texas Chainsaw Massacre - hails from Evil Dead and Don't Breathe alums Fede Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues, who came up with the screen story that led to the script from Chris Thomas Devlin. ![]() Fast forward several decades later, to the summer of 2020, when the native Texan was tapped to helm a direct sequel to the seminal horror classic.
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