Holy shit.

Ok, fair warning, this is another Saw post, but stay with me--something actually interesting (to people other than me) has happened. The shortest possible version:

Twisted Pictures and Lionsgate, the companies that produce and distribute the Saw films, respectively, have just exercised a contractual option.

Kevin Greutert, who directed Saw VI, has been pulled off of Paranormal Activity 2, which Paramount had hired him to direct, and they're now forcing him at contractual gunpoint to direct Saw 3D.

Now he has to direct a film he had no hand in preparing, and which oh, by the way, starts shooting in two weeks. And David Hackl, who was to have directed the new film and had done all the pre-production until this date, has been pushed out.

For me this is doubly bittersweet: I thought Greutert did a better job on VI than David Hackl did on V, and like most Saw fans, I wanted him back. But not like this.

This sure looks like really a shitty thing to do to the both of them.

Be careful what you wish for...