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A24 acquires rights to 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', new show in development

Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:45 am
Posted by cinemaguy23
Member since Apr 2025
384 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 9:45 am
show in development with Glen Powell producing and JT Mollner directing. Could be interesting, A24 is probably the top studio in the industry at the moment




Deadline article
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:20 am to
This is one of the IPs that should have remained a one off

The original sequel going horror-comedy was fine, since it was a completely different genre.

Nothing else of any quality has come since, and TCM is the best and greatest horror movie of all time, IMHO.
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
41483 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 10:29 am to
quote:

Nothing else of any quality has come since, and TCM is the best and greatest horror movie of all time, IMHO


Agreed. Horror is certainly not my genre as I pretty much only like the classics, but TCM is my favorite. Only other TCM I watched was the Jessica Biel one, never even watched the sequel. But the OG is so well done, perfect ending, and there's just something extremely creepy and realistic about wondering upon a crazy backwoods family like that.

Hopefully Glenn Powell is is just producing and not acting.
Posted by JasonDBlaha
Woodlands, Texas
Member since Apr 2023
3950 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:17 am to
They’re going to retcon the frick out of it.

Why does every fricking horror film now have to be retconned? It’s cringe and bullshite.
Posted by UnluckyTiger
Member since Sep 2003
42480 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:25 am to
I enjoyed the Jessica Biel TCM.

Posted by Godzilla jr
Member since Sep 2025
200 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:36 am to
The original is a perfect movie and the greatest horror movie ever made in the history of cinema. So much so that it was a favorite of Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, and Ridley Scott who upon taking the Alien job watched the movie and said “I want to make that movie in outer space” and changed the direction to accentuate the horror moreso than the Sci/fi.


As far as the sequels TCM2 is a favorite, and Next Generation is a guilty pleasure because it’s such a WTF movie. McConaughey is going all out with the crazy and carries that movie.
Posted by Sam Quint
Member since Sep 2022
8413 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:40 am to
how much more can they possibly expand on this IP? every remake is essentially the same as the original, just with increasingly higher production value and more famous actors.

no remake will ever be as good as the original, and no remake will ever include someone so perfect as peak Jessica Biel at the height (depth?) of low-rise jean fashion. so let's just move on as a society.
Posted by cinemaguy23
Member since Apr 2025
384 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:43 am to
from the director himself:

I’ve said publicly that I’m not interested in remaking perfect films, and the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a perfect film,” Mollner said in a statement. I have so much reverence for [director and co-writer] Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel because they created something bold, transgressive, and truly seminal that holds up even today as the gold standard for horror. When the idea for a long form exploration into this world came to me, I saw it as a fresh way in, as well to honor and build on the existing folklore. It’s the only way I wanted to do it — and I can’t imagine better partners for this concept than A24. This is truly an honor.”
This post was edited on 2/4/26 at 11:44 am
Posted by dblwall
Member since Jul 2017
1378 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:08 pm to
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and TCM is the best and greatest horror movie of all time, IMHO.


The one thing that really freaked me out about the film was at the end. I believe right before the credits it said something like "the people who were still alive are serving life sentences in a Texas prison. Before the internet for the longest time I thought it was all true.
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