New Texas Chainsaw Massacre Movie Has Cast Its Old Man Leatherface

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise is returning to the screen, and it’s taking a leaf out of Blumhouse’s Halloween revival in its means. Don’t Breathe‘s Fede Alvarez is producing the relaunch of the vintage horror series, with the movie set to follow on from the 1974 unique and have an aged version of the infamous serial killer that Alvarez is dubbing “Old Man Leatherface.” And following that data coming our manner earlier this week, we now know who’s taking at the iconic role in the movie.

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Bloody Disgusting has revealed that Mark Burnham (Lowlife) has been hired through director David Blue Garcia to be the one to don the character’s human pores and skin mask. The movie can even function Sally Hardesty, the final girl from the first flick, with Marilyn Burns replaced within the role via Olwen Fouéré (Mandy). Nell Hudson and Elsie Fisher, meanwhile, celebrity as two sisters from San Francisco who shuttle to Texas on a trade trip, the place they’re unlucky sufficient to run into Burnham’s killer, and the cast likewise contains Alice Krige (Star Trek), Sarah Yarkin (Happy Death Day 2U) and William Hope (Dark Shadows).

Much like that different masked horror villain Michael Myers, Leatherface has nearly always been played by a different actor each time he’s seemed, so Burnham is the most recent in a long line of Leatherfaces. Gunnar Hansen originated the section in 1974, with Bill Johnson, R.A. Mihailoff, Robert Jacks, Andrew Bryniarski and Dan Yeager taking on for next entries in the collection. Sam Strike most lately played him for 2017’s Leatherface. 

Alvarez also showed previous this week that the new movie uses “old school” horror filmmaking techniques and hired sensible results and trickery wherever conceivable for its gruesome death scenes. As co-produced by means of Kim Henkel, who wrote the 1974 flick with the past due Tobe Hooper, 2021’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre was once shot last 12 months and we’re now just waiting for Legendary to announce a unlock date for it.

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