Instead, it focused on a copycat killer.
“That’s why we’re back,” Koules admitted.
“These people wanted John Kramer alive.”
He continued, “He is the heart and soul of Saw.
And he makes the franchise.
It’d be hard to ever do a movie without him.”
So don’t go expecting a sequel to Spiral to find out what happened to Chris Rock’s character.
Chances are, that chapter of “The Book of Saw” is closed.
But what is it about the character of John Kramer that makes him so engaging to fans?
“I think he’s just a Sphinx,” Greutert said.
But at the same time, he puts people in these unspeakably horrible situations.
In Saw X, we catch up with John in the aftermath of the original Saw film.
“This story is a John Kramer story, not a Jigsaw story,” Burg teased.
“And we really wanted to get to know him.
He was very vulnerable in this.
I mean, he’s a human.”
Of course, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen John in a vulnerable state.
He knows he’s on limited time but makes the journey to Mexico to undergo an experimental treatment.
As for whether we will get future movies with Bell as Jigsaw, it wouldn’t be very surprising.
“I know that they asked Tobin, ‘Do you think you have one more in you?’
And his response was, ‘[Only] one more?'”
In the meantime, Saw X is in theaters Friday.
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