Saw 7’s release date remains set for Halloween 2010. It’ll be directed by the man behind Saw 5, David Hackl, and shot in 3-D. “A lot of people just do the 2-D to 3-D transfer, but we want to be able to build the sets in a way that takes advantage of depth,” says Hackl. “We’re going to design traps to come at you. The pendulum trap that opened the last Saw movie would have been great in 3-D. …We’re planning a lot of the movie to be through the victim’s eyes, seeing stuff as it’s coming towards them, in their point-of-view.”
How many Saw films will there eventually be? “The storyline that we started in Saw 5 and carry through Saw 6, ends at Saw 8,” say the current writing duo. “Where it goes beyond that, I couldn’t tell you. In my mind, the story is threaded through Saw 8. After that, I can’t tell you that the franchise will continue.” Unless box office results bounce back next year, don’t be surprised if they really do end it at Saw 8.
