Leatherface

Summary: Leatherface is an upcoming American horror film directed by French filmmaking duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, written by Seth M. Sherwood, and starring Stephen Dorff, Vanessa Grasse, Sam Strike, and Lili Taylor. It is the eighth film in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, and works as a prequel to 1974's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, explaining the origin of the series' lead character. Following the financial success of Texas Chainsaw 3D, Lionsgate commissioned the production of another Chainsaw film. Seth M. Sherwood proposed the film to the studio as an origin story focusing on how the titular Leatherface became a mentally handicapped killer, in favour of avoiding the convoluted continuity of the previous films. Leatherface will follow the canon established by The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Texas Chainsaw 3D, chronologically taking place before said films. In Texas, years before the events of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre, in the early days of the infamous Sawyer family, the youngest child is sentenced to a mental hospital after a suspicious incident leaves the sheriffs’ daughter dead. Ten years later, he kidnaps a young nurse and escapes with 3 other inmates. Pursued by authorities including the deranged sheriff out to avenge his daughter’s death, the young Sawyer teen goes on a violent road trip from hell, molding him into the monster known now as Leatherface.