Saw The Final Chapter
A sequel to Saw VI was originally planned, but due to the decline in box office success for the previous film, Saw 3D was instead made as the final installment in the series. The plot for the originally planned Saw VIII was instead included in Saw 3D. David Hackl, the director of Saw V, was originally set to direct Saw 3D, but two weeks before filming, Greutert, the director of Saw VI, took over. The film was shot in Toronto, Ontario from February to April 2010 and was filmed in RealD 3D.
Saw The Final Chapter
For his final test, Bobby must re-enact the test he claimed to have survived, by driving two hooks through his pectoral muscles and hoisting himself above the ceiling to deactivate Joyce's trap. However, the hooks tear through his flesh and he falls, unable to continue. As the timer expires, a capsule resembling a brazen bull closes around Joyce and she is incinerated. Meanwhile, Hoffman infiltrates the police station, killing everyone in his path before reaching Jill, whom he kills with the original reverse bear trap.
Variety reported in July 2009 that Lionsgate greenlit Saw VII and announced David Hackl would return to direct, his last film being Saw V. Producers Mark Burg and Oren Koules, and writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan also returned.[1] Brian Gedge replaced series' cinematographer David A. Armstrong.[2][3] Pre-production began on September 14, 2009.[4] According to Melton, there were plans to title the film Saw: Endgame.[5] Originally two sequels were planned after the sixth,[6][7] but in December 2009 Melton stated in a podcast interview with the UK radio station Demon FM that Saw VII was the final installment and would address unanswered questions from previous Saw films, such as the fate of the first film's protagonist Dr. Lawrence Gordon and other Jigsaw survivors from previous films, while bringing a final resolution to the series. The storyline for a Saw VIII was combined into Saw VII; this decision was primarily due to Saw VI's below average box office performance.[8][9] On July 22, 2010, in an interview with USA Today the producers confirmed that Saw VII would officially end the film series.[10] Burg told Reuters that, "In every Saw movie, we left questions open and in Saw VII we answer every question the audience has ever had". He added that, "even new viewers will be able to follow and get caught up to speed".[11] Saw 3D was originally intended to be two separate films. According to Melton and Dunstan, "It was our original intention to make the final Saw in two parts, but when [Saw] VI didn't do so well, the studio got nervous and we were only allowed to make one more."[12]
When determining the style of 3D shooting they wanted to use, Burg felt that the audience would want several moments where objects move into the audience, comparing this to My Bloody Valentine 3D. He acknowledged that this method would be used, but expressed an interest in shooting from the victim's perspective, similar to that of first-person shooter video games being rendered in 3D.[31] Dunstan added that "It adds a whole new layer of discipline and criteria to creating these moments. We've had a very flat surface to try to get a reaction out of you. Now, we get to push out a bit and envelop the viewer, still maintaining the patterns that have worked and been successful, but also to raise it up a notch."[31] Commenting on the change to filming in 3D, Bell stated it would not affect his performance or methods of acting, noting that it would be an "interesting experience".[38] Mandylor called the 3D shoot "more tedious and longer".[39] Flannery described (inaccurately, as the final production includes many to-viewer shock shots) the 3D aspect as being "[not] shot in 3D so that you can, per se, see blood coming directly at you. It's in 3D for the texture and the depth, for the architecture, to get a sense that you're in the scene but there's no 'we want to see blood coming at the lens' it's nothing like that. But I think we made a good movie."[40] Post-production services were provided by Deluxe Media.[41]
On July 8, 2010, in some press materials for San Diego Comic-Con, the film was referred to as Saw 3D: The Traps Come Alive, which led to the media assuming it was the final name.[54] The following day, Burg and Koules said that "The Traps Come Alive" was simply a tagline that had been misinterpreted as part of the title. Koules said that if they included the seventh Roman numeral followed by "3D" (Saw VII 3D), it would have been "cumbersome" and not made the impact they wanted. He explained, "It was such a process in 3D, so much hard work was put in. Saw VII 3D is too much. This is like a new movie. [...]"[45] In the same interview, the producers addressed Saw's presence at Comic-Con 2010 in San Diego. The producers said that the footage that was going to be used for the convention could not get approved for the audience; Koules explained, "It's going to be different than what we've done before, we're going to be at Comic-Con but we're not in Comic-Con"."[45]
Saw 3D had advance screenings on October 28, 2010, in 2,000 locations and grossed $1.7 million.[61] It opened in wide release the following day in 2,808 locations playing on 3,500 screens, the second smallest release behind the first Saw. The film earned $8.9 million on its opening day, taking the number one spot from Paranormal Activity 2.[61][62] It grossed $22.5 million its opening Halloween weekend, with 92% of tickets coming from more than 2,100 3D-equipped locations and 57% of the audience being under the age of 25.[63][64][65] It had the fifth best opening weekend in the Saw series.[66] After only four days of wide release, Saw 3D had out-grossed Saw VI's $27.7 million final domestic gross.[67] On its second weekend, the film dropped 66% in ticket sales and made $7.7 million, moving to the number five spot with Megamind taking its number one spot.[68] Saw 3D closed on December 2, 2010, after 35 days of release in the United States and Canada.[69]
Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe called the film the "most gruesome and least coherent of the seven movies". He felt that some of the film's "games" were just randomly forced into the film, saying that kind of "episodic approach" and 3D works for a "far more innovative series like Jackass 3D". Morris closed his review by saying "This alleged final edition trashes the perverse morality of [Jigsaw's] legacy to make him the Jerry Springer of gore".[84] Jason Anderson of the Toronto Star gave the film two out of four stars. He praised Saw 3D's plot for not being as confusing as previous films, for which he described as having to "generally require an encyclopedic knowledge of the series' many plot strands" in order to understand them. He thought Greutert gave the film a "pulpy energy" and described the film's traps and gore as having an "unpretentious sensibility" to films by Herschell Gordon Lewis.[85]
While Saw 3D was intended to be the final film of the film series,[88] in August 2012, it was reported that Lionsgate was considering rebooting the film series.[89] By November 2013, an eighth Saw film was in active development.[90] By February 2016, Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger were hired to pen the script.[91] Directed by The Spierig Brothers, Jigsaw was released on October 27, 2017, with Bell being the only returning cast member.[92]
As he goes on, Bobby enters a room with a locked metal door secured by a combination lock. The four numbers necessary to open it are etched on two of his wisdom teeth. Using pliers, Bobby pulls his teeth, successfully opens the door, and finally finds his wife chained by her neck to a metal platform in the middle of an electric fence. A final videotape by Jigsaw tells Bobby how to save his wife. He has to play the same game he claimed to have survived before. Joyce is angry to learn the truth about Bobby's faked survivor story but forgives him as he tries to save her.
Hoffman finally reaches the morgue and heads for the detention cells while killing everyone in his path, including Palmer and Rogers. As he finds Jill in one of the cells, she manages to flee but is eventually found and beaten up by him in the evidence room. Afterward, he straps her to a chair and locks a reverse bear trap - the original one from the first film - onto her head. As she has no way to escape, Jill's mouth is ripped open by the trap, killing her.
Next is Suzanna, who Jigsaw charges as someone who not only speaks lies but knowingly looks away from the truth. She is in a trap which will impale her in the eyes and mouth unless Bobby stands in a different machine and pushes a huge amount of weight up. He tries hard, but the contraption actually stabs him while he is lifting the weight. He is unable to handle the pain or hold up the weight for the required 30 seconds and the lawyer is killed. Now injured, Bobby slowly makes his way to the next room, where he finds a copy of his own book with his signature. The book is missing its jacket cover and Bobby finally gets a hint of Jigsaw's identity.
The third and final obstable is Bobby's friend Cale. He is on the other side of the room and blindfolded. The room lacks a floor and only has a few planks to grant its occupants movement, if they fall off the planks it could kill them. Hanging in the middle of the room is a key, the two men must meet halfway across the room so the key can unlock Cale's device because if time runs out Cale would be hanged. Bobby must guide the blindfolded Cale across the planks while he himself must move to the key. He talks Cale to a pretty close spot, grabs the key, tells Cale to keep his hands close to his body, counts to three and throws the key. It lands in Cale's hands but bounces off and lands on the floor. There is a split second of horror before Cale hangs and dies. 041b061a72