Hello friends. The traps have been set. We’ll soon be playing another game… Yes, Jigsaw’s sixth trip to the big screen (for the sixth year in a row), has just wrapped principal photography and will be heading officially into post production. Congratulations to all. This news was just posted by the film’s director, (and veteran SAW editor) Kevin Greutert (up top with pleasant proof that Shawnee Smith is in the flick), on his official blog. To find out what he said, and possibly how part VI (which opens October 23rd) will be nothing like SAW IV, read on:
“After finishing the Saw VI shoot on Wednesday afternoon, I emerged, pale and blinking, into a new world, where the trees had suddenly budded overnight, people were sailing on Lake Ontario in the middle of the week, and I had put my first film production behind me. It was a mighty feeling, and I committed myself to a few days of fucking off and not getting anything done. Between the start of prep on January 8th and the end of shooting on May 13th, I’d lost fifteen pounds, despite the daily noontime tuna melts that endeared me so much to the crew, but between Wednesday and today I’ve gained four pounds back again, and it’s because I’ve returned to the cave where I belong. In other words, I’m in the Editing Room.
Editor Andrew Coutts is doing an amazing job putting together the first cut of the film, which he will be presenting to me next week. In the meantime, I’m finally taking a good hard look at the footage, and making sure that every precious nugget makes it into the final movie…”
Well, Mr. Greutert does sound excited and motivated to work hard. Hopefully that will all wind up in the finished product. The official synopsis for this said product, which will again star Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, and Ms. Shawnee, reads like this:
Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw’s legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw’s grand scheme is finally understood.
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