Gunnar Hansen – known worldwide by horror fans as Leatherface in Tobe Hooper’s THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE – will appear in THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 3D, according to Bloody-Disgusting. We won’t be wearing the mask of flesh, however; his role is a potential cameo.
Hansen would join a cast that already includes Alexandra Daddario (below), Scott Eastwood, Sue Rock, Tania Raymonde and Bill Moseley. John Luessenhop (TAKERS) directs from a script by Debra Sullivan, Adam Marcus, Stephen Susco, Kirsten Elms and Luessenhop.
The movie is currently in production in Louisiana. Lionsgate plans to have it in theaters on October 5, 2012.
The film, set in the present, will see the authorities and some angry townspeople ambushing the Sawyer home – where Jeb Stuart is accused of carrying out his butchering.
Hooper, the local by-the-book sheriff, had agreed to give Leatherface/Jeb Sawyer a fair trial and grant him a good lawyer… But that’s before local mayor Burt Hartman, an imposing town tough-guy, arrives with a mob to see that the murderers don’t even make it past their front door. Though they both want justice, Hooper and Burt have different methods. Things escalate when Burt’s mob start tying ropes to trees, prepping for a hanging, and ultimately throw a flaming cocktail into the Sawyer home – burning the place, and its residents, to the ground.
The Chainsaw killings start up again and Hooper is forced to believe that Jeb Stuart somehow survived the fire and is back for revenge. But is it Jeb? And if not, who is it? And why have they surfaced?