The creepy little dude to the left could be riding off the screen straight into your lap next year.  Sitting down with IGN, SAW VI co-writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan and producer Mark Berg revealed that the next entry will make the jump to 3-D.  "SAW, just by the way it's shot, lends itself to being a 3-D movie," Berg stated.  He added that he viewed a short clip of SAW that someone had converted from 2-D and loved it, though he says that SAW VII will be shot in true 3-D, not changed over in post-production.

Dunstan goes on to say, "We've had a very flat surface to try to get a reaction out of you. Now, we get to push out a bit and envelop the viewer, still maintaining the patterns that have worked and been successful, but also to raise it up a notch." Melton adds, "in a way, when we go to 3-D on the Saw films, it's like an anti-3-D movie. We're now in a box, and it's going to make the house of horrors come to life even more."

Following the success of MY BLOODY VALENTINE and THE FINAL DESTINATION in 3-D, everyone seems to be going with the hot hand, straight into the third dimension.  Whether the trend will have burned out by then, only time will tell.  But given the success of the first five entries in the franchise, this could be an even bigger moneymaker.  Not surprisingly, the article also discusses plans for SAW VIII.

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 --Phil Fasso