Backstage welcomes Dave Morales
spoke with the producers about
keeping the franchise fresh. IAH
High I want to play a game haha.
Okay. I can't be that scary.
We're talking Saw ten which hits
theaters this week. We're ready
to take you backstage with the
perspective, John Kramer is back
doing scary stuff. This movie
takes place after the first saw
and before saw two. Are you
ready? Can you handle it? Let's
play a game. This is saw ten.
All right. You both have been
part of this franchise for
years. We started it. When did
you know the reaction in the fan
base is so hardcore. The
characters. When did you go? I
think we have something here.
The after the first weekend, the
movie prior to the movie
opening. Not true. The UK. So
what happened is we were
supposed to come out at the end
of September this is saw one
John Feltheimer who the chairman
of and CEO of Lionsgate decided
to move it into Halloween week.
world they got to move it except
the UK couldn't move it because
they had booked the theaters and
they couldn't. They had a
commitment. So the change. So
the UK released it a month early
and we did like $12 million in
UK on $1 million movie. And UK
is not as big a territory as you
think. It's not that big. And
that gave Lionsgate the Kerr the
courage to spend the money and
release the movie theatrically
and it wasn't until the opening
weekend where we're like, Wow,
this movie actually is like, we
may actually get our money back.
This is going to work. You know,
the fan base is hardcore. Do you
read like the comments? Okay.
You do? Yeah because that's how
we learn. That's kind of we
don't test the movies. We don't.
We read a ton of Reddit. We
friends of ours that read it, we
just kind of digest it, dissect
they like, who they don't like,
what we've done wrong, what
we've done, what we've done
right, and it's kind of a
sounding board for us. We
listen, you take out the
crazies, the people that hate it
and speak bad about it, or the
people that speak just are crazy
. Fans in that middle say 80. We
listen and learn. We don't do we
don't do research screenings
because we don't want people
giving away the ending and you
can't test it. And then have 300
people on Instagram talking
about the movie. So we're kind
of go with our own gut and then
we learn and we read and we
listen and we make changes. I
mean, that's how this became a
movie between Saw one and two.
It's what the audience wanted
and what the fans wanted. We
wanted Shawnee Smith back in the
movie. They wanted Tobin not in
a flashback, but still being
we know when we got to make the
movie. Now let's come up with a
story that works for this time
period. Are there scenes that
you guys see maybe as they're
filming or in the dailies or
whatever? Do you guys go, Oh,
this is going to get them? Yeah
like, okay, we can get a big
jump here. Here's how we're
going to do it and here's what
we're going to do. And, and it
worked. It was a director, does
it? Yeah Director Does it. Does
it all. Kevin's genius. I mean,
Kevin either edited or directed
every Saul movie, so he's seen
Saul. One knows what works and
does not. That's in the movie.
But every frame of footage that
we ever shot, it. Are you scared
will tell you right now my
instant review is there is a
great story behind this one
specifically relating to the
character John Kramer. It's gory