Leatherface will hack its way through Cannes.
NewsLeatherface, the upcoming prequel to Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic horror flick The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, will be added to the Cannes sales slate.
Nu Image announced that it will be bringing three new movies to Cannes this year. Besides Leatherface, Millennium Films’ prequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Nu Image will also present two action-thrillers they have in postproduction from Hannibal Classics: Bus 657, starring Robert De Niro and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and I Am Wrath, which stars John Travolta.
Leatherfacestars EastEnders’ actor Sam Strike as Jackson, Ike as James Bloor, Stephen Dorff as Texas Ranger Hartman and Lili Taylor. Angela Bettis was cast as Mother Sawyer.
Leatherface will serve up the origin story that follows a teenage Leatherface in the 1970s who "resides in a mental institution until he joins a pack of fellow patients who all break out and go on the run from the authorities."
Leatherface is the second prequel to the franchise after The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.
Leatherface will be directed by French filmmakers Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, who made the cult film Inside. The screenplay was written by Seth M. Sherwood. The film is being produced by Carl Mazzocone with Christa Campbell and Lati Grobman.
Production on Leatherfacebegins on May 18th in Bulgaria.
SOURCE: DEADLINE
