""Leigh and I both want to recapture the spirit of that first film and revisit Jigsaw's philosophy, which is that he goes after people who don't appreciate their lives," Wan said. "If you're a scumbag, but you appreciate your life, he doesn't see you as someone who's wasting your life, so I want to go back to what we touched on in the first movie with regard to that.""
"The Saw franchise has always had a reputation for being intense, gory, and generally hard to watch. Nevertheless, audiences keep coming back to see the twisted traps Jigsaw creates to punish his victims."
"Jigsaw, according to Wan, doesn't just punish people for being evil - he forces people who take their life for granted to appreciate what it means to be alive."
James Wan and Leigh Whannell are returning to the Saw franchise they created. Wan gained wider recognition for Aquaman and Insidious but began by co-directing Saw in 2004 and later returned to co-write Saw III in 2026. Blumhouse Productions purchased Twisted Pictures' stake, enabling renewed creative involvement. Wan intends to recapture the original film's spirit by revisiting Jigsaw's philosophy: targeting people who take their lives for granted rather than punishing mere evil. The franchise drifted through multiple directors and abandoned projects, and Wan's approach aims to bring Saw back to its foundational moral premise.
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