‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Hot Packages Revving Up As Leatherface Lurks Again – The Dish

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EXCLUSIVE: Studios and filmmakers are knocking on Verve‘s door as the agency is sitting on bloody good IP that they’re looking to take on the town: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Verve has repped the rights for the slasher series created by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel since 2017. At a time when horror and franchises are really the only surefire bets at the post-Covid and strike-impacted box office, the 51-year-old horror property about a chainsaw-wielding serial killer still has potential to make a killing.

One of the parties, we hear, showing interest in reviving Texas Chainsaw Massacre is filmmaker/scribe JT Mollner and producer Roy Lee, hot off Strange Darling, their $3 million-grossing, 96% certified Rotten Tomatoes cult hit.

If Mollner gets a script together, word is that Glen Powell would like to read it. It’s very early days on this; no contracts or attachments as of yet, and the Mollner/Powell combo is but one interested party of many (though we’ve heard that Lionsgate, A24 and others are expressing interest in that version).