- Fans can thank Chris Rock for the inspiration behind Spiral: From the Book of Saw.
“I watch a dramatic movie, and I go, ‘I could’ve got four jokes in there without f–king up the movie.’ I always play that game,'” the comedian said in a 2021 interview with Comicbook.com. “Saw, especially Saw II, was one of those movies where I was like, ‘I think I could’ve gotten a couple of jokes in there without screwing up the movie.’”
So, he continued, he pitched the idea to the head of Lionsgate at a wedding.
“I was like, ‘You ever think about putting some comedy in Saw?’ Chris added. “Not a lot like a Scary Movie, not make it silly. But the Saws are so dire.”
17. As for why Spiral wasn’t just called Saw IX?
“It’s because it’s the ninth instalment of this franchise, but it’s not Saw 9,” director Darren Lynn Bousman explained to RadioTimes.com in 2021, “because there will never be another Tobin Bell, there will never be another Jigsaw.”
As he put it, he “didn’t want to insult the fans by trying to make another Jigsaw,” and introduced a new killer to avoid comparison.
18. In fact, Tobin doesn’t appear in Spiral at all. Instead, Darren wanted the new character to build off what Jigsaw had done.
“This killer, our new killer, is reforming an institution, a big group of people,” he noted to RadioTimes.com “And I think that he’s taking it to the next level, which is, in my mind, the ultimate legacy of what John Kramer wanted: to make a change, a cultural impact.”
