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By Rebecca Murray, About.com Guide to Hollywood Movies since 2001

The Saw III New Guy Speaks

Friday October 27, 2006
Better known for starring roles in romantic movies and period dramas, Angus Macfadyen takes on the horror genre with a starring role in Saw III. Macfadyen had never tackled a horror movie before and thought the timing was right when he picked up the Saw III script. "I'd never done a horror film and I guess you think about it and say, 'Oh, I'd like to do that at some point," explained Macfadyen. "Then, I got the script of the third one, which was very interesting. I thought, on some level, it had gone beyond the other two into a whole moral dilemma for this character and the choices he has to face." Read On...
  • Angus Macfadyen on Saw III and Being the New Guy on the Set

  • (Photo © Lionsgate Films)

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  • Exclusive Interview - Saw III Writer Leigh Whannell
    There's absolutely no way Leigh Whannell could have imagined the success of Saw and Saw II when he and James Wan came up with the idea for the first story. "No, you never expect it. You never expect it. There's not even any sort of…what am I trying to say here…you can't really even have any expectations. It's not like a sporting team who starts the season and expects to win the Super Bowl, the World Series. That's what they're aiming at. Whereas James and I weren't like that. We weren't aiming at winning the lottery. We were actually aiming to do something very small with Saw, to just shoot it. We were going to use a video camera and I think we were going to save up $5,000 and try and do it in our garage. I always bring that up because it means that the results far exceeded our expectations. If our plan had been to shoot the film in Hollywood and have it be a success..., then it would be kind of wish fulfillment. But this isn't really wish fulfillment. This is more like someone granting you a wish when you didn't expect it."
  • One on One with Saw III Writer Leigh Whannell

  • (Poster Art © Lionsgate Films)

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