In a new sit-down, writer-director Curry Barker revealed a little more about his intentions with the A24 reboot of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
It’s gonna be grounded, brutal, raw. It should be very, very uncomfortable. I just want to nail the tone. I want to make you care about the characters that we’re on the journey with. I want to give a deeper story to whoever is on this road trip. Just like Bear, Nikki and Sarah are characters that you never knew before — I mean, we all know Leatherface and the Sawyers — but what are the characters that I can invent that we can grow to care about. If they do die brutally, we’ll actually be sad that they died. It was something that I had voiced to my team that I was really excited about. I knew A24 had just gotten the rights to it, and I was like, “As far as IP goes, that’s something I would love to tackle.” It was a match made in heaven and all the stars aligning at once for me to to get that one.
Source: Variety