The film series as a whole has received mostly mixed to negative reviews, but remains one of the highest-grossing horror film franchises of all time. The franchise has grossed more than $1 billion from box office and retail sales. A ninth film, Spiral, was released in 2021, with comedian and actor Chris Rock attached to star, produce and co-write. An eighth film, Jigsaw, was eventually released in October 2017. Lionsgate however expressed interest in continuing the franchise in 2012. In 2010, franchise producer Mark Burg said that the seventh film, Saw 3D, would be the final installment. Both creators remained with the franchise as executive producers. From 2004 to 2010, each film was released on the Friday before Halloween. Five directors have worked on the series: James Wan, Darren Lynn Bousman, David Hackl, Kevin Greutert and The Spierig Brothers while Whannell, Bousman, Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan, Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger have written the scripts.
After its immensely successful opening weekend, the first of many sequels was immediately green-lit. It was ultimately successful, and, in 2004, the first installment debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, and was released theatrically that October by Lionsgate. In 2003, Wan and Whannell made a short film to help pitch a potential feature film concept. Despite the fact that Kramer was killed in Saw III, the films continued to focus on his posthumous influence, particularly by his apprentices, and explore his character via flashbacks. Rather than killing his victims outright, he traps them in situations that he calls "tests" or "games" to test their will to live through physical or psychological torture, believing that if they survive, they will be "rehabilitated". John Kramer was introduced briefly in Saw and developed in more detail in Saw II and the subsequent films. The first eight films primarily revolve around the fictional serial killer John "Jigsaw" Kramer, while the ninth movie revolves around a copycat killer while still keeping continuity with the previous films. Saw is a horror franchise created by Australian film makers James Wan and Leigh Whannell, consisting of nine feature films and additional media.
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