Curry Barker To Direct “Texas Chainsaw” Film

Hot on the heels of his recently released “Obsession,” filmmaker Curry Barker has been set as the director of A24’s reboot of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” reports Variety.

In September last year, A24 won a months-long bidding war for the film and TV rights to the franchise. Then, in February, came the news that both a TV series and a film were in the works. The show has JT Mollner slated to direct, and the likes of Glen Powell and Roy Lee producing.

Not much has been indicated about the film until now, with it being dubbed a ‘reimagining’ of the original 1974 Tobe Hooper film. What Barker will bring to this take remains under wraps.

The original 1974 film remains an iconic work of horror, though the franchise has been laden with numerous unnecessary sequels and prequels along with a whole lot of messy, contradictory continuity.

Barker broke through with the $800-budget YouTube feature “Milk & Serial” and is currently in production on “Anything But Ghosts” at Blumhouse that follows two fraudulent paranormal investigators forced to face real ghosts.

The highest-grossing instalment in the “Texas Chainsaw” franchise remains the 2003 reboot produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form and Brad Fuller. That grossed $107 million worldwide.

Source: Variety