Day 25: What started in Texas...Has begun again!!!!!!
My pick for the 25th day is....
Tobe Hooper, director of the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), was originally going to be involved in the film. He had submitted a treatment to New Line execs, but bowed out of the project due to scheduling conflicts concerning his film Spontaneous Combustion (1990).
Tom Savini was offered the job of directing this film. Among others, one of New Line's first choices for director was Peter Jackson.
Kane Hodder, who played Jason Voorhees in four "Friday the 13th" films, was the stunt coordinator for this one,and also portrayed Leatherface during the stunt work and trailer of this film.
The original script was much more brutal with explicit gore sequences. The producers objected to many of the scenes (one of which had a nude man being split down the middle while hung upside down) and demanded extensive changes to the script to reduce gore and violence. Further cuts had to be made to avoid an X-rating after the film was finished.
New Line shot a new ending with editor Michael N. Knue in which Ken Foree 's character Benny survives being cut into his head with chainsaw,and R.A. Mihailoff 's Leatherface survives being bashed into his head with large rock numerous times.You can't even imagine how suprised(in negative manner) director Jeff Burr was when he saw the film in the cinema for the first time in Tenansee,realizing that new ending was shot without him even knowing.
by Bucky
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