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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre may have been plundered for endless sequels and remakes – and sequels to remakes – but Leatherface is set to return for yet another traveller-butchering slashfest.

With the Saw franchise apparently coming to an end, Twisted Pictures are turning their attentions to bloody pastures new.

Twisted Pictures, who’ve been planning a new Chain Saw Massacre sequel for a while, have finally moved ahead and hired writers Adam Marcus and Debra Sullivan to scratch out a script.

The pair previously worked together nearly two decades ago to pen the after-thought slasher sequel that was Jason Goes To Hell.

The plot of this seventh human-flesh wearing movie picks up 35 years after Leatherface first rampaged in Tobe Hooper’s chilling original, and sees a set of new relatives entering the fold. The word on the street is that Leatherface 3D picks up right after the end of the Tobe Hooper original (so will we see Leatherface finish dancing with his saw and mooch home?) before jumping forward 35 years.

BD have picked up an inkling of a plot involving a cult, which is heartening because it worked so well in the Halloween sequels.

No word of a director yet, although Marcus himself looks like a possibility.

“It’s 35 years later, there’s a relative going back,” producer Mark Burg said last year. “Why is he going back? I don’t want to set it in a dusty town. How do we make it more urban but keep that feel.

“There will be some relatives, some new people. There’s still the subtext of ‘are they eating these people?’ The whole idea of cannibalism, we’re bringing it back.”

Is this a potential Hallowe'en franchise to replace John Kramer and his traps? If that's the plan, it's looking increasingly as if Leatherface will have Paranormal Activity to contend with on an annual basis for a while yet.

Will it be another poor retread of Tobe Hooper’s seminal horror movie or a fresh new banquet of gore to feast our eyes on? Expect more news on this project in the near future.