Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World’s Most Notorious Horror Movie

[Himmel]

Published in 2013, the late Gunnar Hansen‘s book Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World’s Most Notorious Horror Movie went deep into the making of Tobe Hooper‘s horror classic, and we’ve learned today that the book is now being turned into a movie. Not a documentary, mind you, but a narrative movie recreating that infamous filming experience!

Deadline reports that Kirk Shaw’s Ambitious Entertainment and Yvette Yates Redick and Shaun Redick’s Impossible Dream Entertainment are joining forces for a new creative partnership, and one of the first projects on their slate is the movie adaptation of Hansen’s book.

Chain Saw Confidential is being mounted as a dark comedy,” Deadline reports.

“Hansen’s book has been adapted by David Dubos, and purports to bring to the screen all the fun, horror and craziness from the making of the original seminal 1974 Tobe Hooper-directed horror film that cost $140,000 and grossed north of $30 million, spawning knock offs and numerous noisy and bloodier franchise extensions. Robert Abramoff is executive producing.”

The making of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was infamously a hellish experience, with the cast and crew braving the hot Texas sun to bring to the screen one of the most truly horrifying horror movies ever put to film. This should make for one hell of a movie, to say the least!

Casting is expected to begin soon. ∆

[Winslow Leach]

Sounds like a good one.

I'd rather see this than another remake/reboot.

[Michael1989]

Oh this sounds really good. Coming up to nearly 50 years since the originals release

[Mikezilla3k]

As long as it gets the book to get re-released, I'm all for it.