The Saw peeps to make Texas Chainsaw movies

The folks that make the SAW series of movies, Twisted Pictures, are looking to take over the franchise for THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. That means that they will hold the rights to both Jigsaw and that evil, power tool wielding monster Leatherface.

The trade paper Variety revealed that the plan is to contemporize the storyline for a 3D film that would be scripted by Stephen Susco, who was behind THE GRUDGE remake. Twisted will get a multi-picture deal for the franchise, which is more than the folks at Platinum Dunes, the people that were behind the last two movies, had. They were on a one picture deal.