CraveOnline: One question I’m very curious about, and I asked Leigh Whannell about this and he was very coy: at the end of Insidious: Chapter 2, do you know what Lin Shaye saw? When she gasps and then BOOM! Insidious?
James Wan: [Laughs.]
It seems like we’re not going there in the third one. Do you know, did you have conversations about it?
Well, yeah. Leigh and I had an idea of where [the] next immediate connection of the story could possibly go. But when it became, when Leigh started going and doing number three as more of a prequel, then we sort of abandoned that idea.
“I love the idea of keeping [Saw] in that world but telling a brand new story. A fresh story.”
So it could go anywhere now…
Well, it could go anywhere now. I still like my idea for where I initially wanted number three to go. I don’t want to say it just in case we use it. [Laughs.]
I understand.
But it could be a fun direction.
You mentioned a little while ago that you were thinking about maybe going back to Saw as a possibility. Is that still a possibility?
Did I mention that…?
We have you on record, man. You said you weren’t not open to the idea.
[Laughs.] Okay. “That I weren’t not open to the idea…!”
I can look up the article. That’s not the exact quote.
No, I have said that. Yes, no, you’re right, I have said that. Listen, Saw is such a big brand, right? It’s such a big brand, I definitely do thing the producers in Lionsgate do not have aspirations so far of wanting to reinvigorate that story, that world, which I would love for them to do. But I don’t think it should be a number eight. I think by that stage no one knows what the frick is going on already, right?
No one’s known what was going on for the last five movies.
Yeah, exactly, right? It’s become so convoluted. So I love the idea of keeping it in that world but telling a brand new story. A fresh story.
That would have nothing to do with Jigsaw…?
No, no, no, of course not. He’s such a big part of that world, right? I don’t think you can do a Halloween without Michael Myers. I mean they did…
It’s got a cult following!
It has a cult following, but do you know how pissed off I was when I was kid? Now I love Halloween III but when I was a kid I hated it! I was like, “Where the hell is Michael Myers?!”
William Bibbiani is the editor of CraveOnline’s Film Channel and the host of The B-Movies Podcast and The Blue Movies Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.
