Meanwhile, a homicide detective named Fitch is kidnapped and put in a trap where he must cut off his fingers to avoid electrocution in a filling water basin. He also can't get out of the trap and dies. Fitch had ignored a backup call from Banks a few years earlier, which almost killed him. Due to his history with Fitch, some officers start to think that Banks might be to blame. Then, a box with a pig puppet and a piece of Schenk's tattooed skin comes to the station. A small vial inside the box tells the police to go to a butcher shop that used to be a hobby shop where Banks and his father, retired chief Marcus Banks, used to go. When the team gets there, they find a tape recorder and the skinned body of Schenk. Marcus decides to find the killer himself, so he goes to a warehouse, where he is taken away. Soon after, Garza is kidnapped and put in a trap in the precinct's cold storage where she has to cut her spinal cord with a knife to stop hot wax from coming out of a pipe onto her face. She fails to do so, and when Banks finds her body, she has already died from the burns caused by the boiling hot wax.
Detective Zeke Banks was played by Chris Rock.
Detective William Schenk/Emerson was played by Max Minghella. Young William was acted by Leonidas Castrounis. Marcus Banks was played by Samuel L. Jackson.
Captain Angie Garza (Marisol Nichols) was played by Marisol.
Detective Marv Bozwick was played by Daniel Petronijevic.
Zeppieri portrayed Fitch.
Dunleavy was played by Patrick McManus. Ali Johnson played Jeannie Lewis. Palmer played Kara Bozwick.
Sgt. Morgey Silva was played by Dylan Roberts.
K. C. Collins gave the performance of Detective Drury. Edie Inksetter was Deborah Kraus.
Nazneen Contractor was the one who played the role of Coroner Chada.
Officer Tim O'Brien was played by Thomas Mitchell. Benny Wrights was played by Chad Camilleri.
Speez was played by Chris Ramsay. Frank Licari played Emmerson.
Genelle Williams played Lisa Banks in the film.
The role of Officer Pat Jones was played by Trevor Gretzky.
Tobin Bell, who portrayed John Kramer/Jigsaw in all previous Saw films, did not reprise his role in Spiral: From the Book of Saw, making it the only film in the genre in which neither Bell nor the Jigsaw persona appear onscreen other than in images. Bousman said that the film's murderer is not the original Jigsaw and that he has no plans to replace Bell in the legendary role. Bell has indicated interest in reprising his role as Jigsaw provided the plot explored Billy the Puppet's origins.
After an accidental encounter with Michael Burns, the vice chairman of Lionsgate, at a friend's wedding in Brazil in 2011, Chris Rock decided to make his first horror film, Spiral (2021), and decided to include some humorous aspects into it. His suggestions for expanding the series were met with enthusiastic response by Lionsgate. Joe Drake, the CEO of Lionsgate, remarked that Rock's approach was totally respectful of the tradition of the material while reinvigorating the brand with his humor, artistic vision, and enthusiasm for this legendary horror property. New Saw film conversations were claimed to have commenced in January 2018 by industry sources, although the Spierig Brothers would not be involved. In an interview with Screen Rant, the filmmakers revealed that their picture lays the foundation for potential sequels. With Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger, the authors of Jigsaw, Twisted Pictures was already working on a sequel by April of 2018.
Despite discussions occurring after the first test screening and throughout post-production, Stolberg stated in an interview with Bloody Disgusting that Jigsaw was never included in any draft for the screenplay of Spiral: From the Book of Saw because they felt that including Jigsaw would change the foundation of the story they were trying to achieve, not to diminish the character but to move the franchise in a new direction. Because of the franchise's timeline, Stolberg and Goldfinger proposed an after-credits sequence in which Kramer met a young Schenk after the murder of the latter's father and bonded with him, maybe giving him the puppet he later uses as the Spiral (2021) Killer.
Because the film's killer is a Jigsaw copycat who differs from the original, it was decided to replace Billy the Puppet with a new puppet, Mr. Snuggles, because Bousman believed that if the original Jigsaw was replaced, the original puppet should be replaced as well, so the new killer could not be compared. The production feared that using Bell's voice for Mr. Snuggles would raise questions about the relationship between the two killers; an early draft actually featured Jigsaw's voice only to be revealed a digitally altered version of his voice, and the story originally had all the speeches as past recordings of Jigsaw's voice using words in a different order to show that the Spiral: From the Book of Saw Killer had digitally rearranged the words to show that the Spiral: From the Book of Saw Killer had digitally rearranged the words The producers struggled to locate a replacement for Bell's voice for the murderer. Bousman experimented with a variety of female, kid, and male sounds before deciding on the computer produced voice. Only two days before the sound mix was completed, the final voice for the picture was chosen.
Rock revealed that he has been a fan of Saw since the first film in 2004 while making the news. He was ecstatic at the prospect of taking it to a whole new level of intensity and twistedness.
Spiral casting
Samuel L. Jackson decided to portray Chief Marcus Banks because he wanted to do something new, such as the climax sequence in which his character is hung up like a marionette. Marisol Nichols was chosen as Captain Angie Garza; the character was initially designed for a male actress, but the filmmakers finally selected Nichols, who, while being a Saw fan, preferred to watch David Fincher's Seven instead of the prior films in preparation for the role. Patrick McManus auditioned for the part of Detective Marv Bozwick in an effort to pursue an acting career on film and television after years of performing on stage, but was called back to portray Peter Dunleavy while Dan Petronijevic was cast as Bozwick.
Principal shooting started on July 8th, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario, under the working title of The Organ Donor, with Jordan Oram as cinematographer. It was reported that the picture will have the likes of Rock, Jackson, Minghella, and Nichols in its cast. In an interview with Variety, Lionsgate CEO Joe Drake said that the company believes Samuel L. Jackson and Chris Rock, as well as Max Minghella and Marisol Nichols, would make this picture stand out in the Saw canon, and that they couldn't wait to share this fresh, terrifying tale with fans. This was Saw taken to the next level in hyperdrive. During filming, Rock revised and reworked the opening sequence for his role. Trap-related scenes were deleted from the film because they were considered too gruesome, says Bousman.
How did Spiral get its name out there?
The debut of Spiral: From the Book of Saw in movie theaters and on streaming services
How would you rate Spiral, if you could?
What was the total box office take for Spiral (2021)?
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) has grossed $40.6 million globally as of March 3, 2022, including $23.2 million in the United States and Canada and $17.3 million in other regions.
What did film reviewers think about Spiral (2021)?
A film critic wrote that the movie takes a couple of unexpected turns, but considering that it's a thriller that's based on the issue of police immorality, the movie deals with that theme in a way that's weirdly offtopic and almost garishly generic.A separate film reviewer said the script maintained the grizzled-cop-movie tone and created distinctive characters, but the narrative was repetitive, the mystery was annoyingly obvious, and the inventive deaths were fewer than before. Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) traded amusement for respectability and achieved neither.
A number of film critics found Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) to be a legitimately frightening detective thriller despite its uneven pacing, but they also faulted the screenplay for failing to convey the potential tensions between the father-son relationship of the film's central characters.
Others praised the performance and Spiral: From the Book of Saw's simple yet captivating idea, although some made criticisms about the voice actor's impression of Kermit the Frog in the role of the unknown murderer. Actually, they're the enticement.
The finale was panned by a film reviewer, who awarded the film one out of five stars and said that he believed it was hurried, half-assed, clumsily written, and worst of all, progressively uninteresting. He gave the picture one rating out of five. The phrase "game over" was how he concluded his evaluation.
A different film critic praised the opening scene, but they thought that it was the only good part of the film. They summed up their thoughts on the film by writing that the premise is dishonest at best and fear mongering at worst. This film is not quite as astute as it imagines itself to be, similar to how Jigsaw could pose one of his easy puzzles.
One reviewer rated Spiral: From the Book of Saw a 3 out of 10 rating, saying it would alienate Saw enthusiasts and mainstream moviegoers. It fails to match the series' fundamental aesthetic and narrative standards. Bad film that attempts to portray a socially important narrative but fails. He also critiqued the film's lack of connection to the Saw franchise, saying it only momentarily delivers the visceral pleasure of mutilation and none of the series' other concepts. It plays like a tactless, artless pilot episode for a repetitive police procedural.
A film reviewer remarked it's not a waste of a notion. No, the franchise doesn't require a reboot. Rock's presence gives fresh blood to Spiral (2021), but after a promising start, the picture merely becomes an alright Saw movie with larger stars than usual. Its jaundiced lighting and procedural narrative evoke David Fincher's Se7en more than anything. Whether the game was to determine if a new approach on a long-running series could withstand sequels, it was lost.
Spiral: From the Book of Saw sequel?
Kevin Beggs, chairman of Lionsgate Television, made the announcement here in an interview with Deadline Hollywood in April 2021 that the company is in early talks to develop a television series based on Spiral: From the Book of Saw, in conjunction with Mark Burg and Oren Koules' Twisted Television productions. Deadline Hollywood was the publication that conducted the interview.