SAW III: Yes, there will be more blood!

Lionsgate the
leading independent filmed entertainment studio, and Twisted Pictures
today announced plans to develop and produce

Saw III,
the next film in the psychologically intense and disturbing horror
franchise, for an October 27, 2006 wide release.

The film will be directed
by Darren Lynn Bousman

(Saw
II), with story by Leigh Whannell and James
Wan

(Saw,


Saw II) and screenplay by Whannell. The Twisted Pictures team of
Mark Burg and Oren Koules will return as producers with Whannell and Wan set
to executive produce. The announcement was made by Peter Block,
Lionsgate President of Acquisitions and Co-productions, Jason Constantine,
Lionsgate Senior VP of Acquisitions, and the Twisted Pictures team of
Mark Burg and Oren Koules.

“Yes, there will be more
blood,” said Block and Constantine. “Saw
III will involve the same creative forces responsible for the
tremendous success of Saw II.
The Twisted team of Mark and Oren, along with Darren, James and Leigh, have
all agreed to be prominently involved in
Saw III. We are proud to be
partnered with some of the most disturbing creative talents on the planet,
and the Saw franchise will
ensure that gore becomes every bit as much a Halloween staple as ghosts,
goblins and candy corn.” Block noted that the film will be dedicated to
Twisted Pictures principal and Saw
producer Gregg Hoffman, who passed away in November
2005.

“We have been discussing
story lines that extend the Saw
franchise to new limits and beyond with Lionsgate for the past several
months,” said Burg and Koules. “The most important element of any franchise
is remaining true to the roots of its success. We believe that we are
developing a script that is certain to please the
Saw franchise’s core fans while
adding fresh, terrifying and unimaginable new twists to the
Saw saga. Jigsaw himself would
be proud.”

Saw
III joins an upcoming
Lionsgate slate that includes Trent Cooper’s
Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector
(March 24), the inspirational Akeelah
And The Bee, starring Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett and Keke
Palmer (April 28), the provocative Sundance sensation
Hard Candy (April), Lionsgate’s
first entry in the Spanish-language feature film marketplace,
La Mujer de mi Hermano, starring
telenovela sensation Barbara Mori (April) and the horror film
See No Evil, starring WWE
superstar Kane (May 19).

Twisted Pictures is helmed
by Mark Burg and Oren Koules. Saw,
one of the most profitable films of 2004, was their first picture under the
new label and was also distributed by Lionsgate. Twisted is currently in
postproduction on Catacombs,
the first film under the previously-announced nine-picture deal between
Twisted and Lionsgate, and is in production on
Silence for Universal Pictures.

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