'Leather Face' Talks About Texas Chainsaw Prequel

[Tuesday, July 27th, 2004]
Andrew Bryniarski, who played Leatherface in the remake The Texas Chainsaw Massacre talked to MTV about his return to the role for the recently announced prequel.

"I just talked to the executive producers, and 2005 is when we're going to shoot this thing," , revealed recently. "Until then, we're going to look at script ideas and they're looking at exactly how far to go back into a prequel story. There's been 33 murders that have been established at the Hewitt farmhouse. You've only seen a few of 'em. And there's a lot of backstory with what caused the head-skinner to go horribly wrong."

Bryniarski and the film's producers (which include "The Bachelor" creator Mike Fleiss) believe their remake succeeded because it honored to the original characters, which the prequel will do as well.

"I was out to set those people that might've been naysayers straight," Bryniarski said, "because we loved 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' and we made this movie 'cause of how cool [director] Tobe Hooper and [actress] Marilyn Burns and Gunnar Hansen are — and not because of how cool we were."

The prequel derails any of the rumored "Leatherface vs. ..." movies inspired by another 2003 horror hit, "Freddy vs. Jason," although Bryniarski hopes one will happen eventually.

"I'll kill 'em all, bring 'em on!" he said. "Michael Myers, Pinhead, whatever, Evil Ash, kill ya! No, I'm a huge fan of all of those guys. And I'd love to fight Jason in a movie. I'd love to play Jason in a movie."

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