Whereas it appeared like the Noticed franchise may proceed veering into new and completely different instructions following the discharge of 2021’s Spiral, any such expectations have been flipped on their heads with the upcoming arrival of Noticed X. The most recent mission from returning director Kevin Greutert will function the longtime star Tobin Bell reprising the position of John “Jigsaw” Kramer, this time for a narrative that’s outwardly being promoted as a prequel narrative set between the timelines of the primary two movies. And we now have our greatest concept but of what to anticipate, because of the discharge of Noticed X’s first trailer.
After watching the preview for the upcoming horror film, which is now set to launch in September after it was shifted ahead from its Halloween week premiere, I’ve some questions on how the story will shake out for Jigsaw, his victims, and the apprentice(s) we’ll see. Try the trailer once more, or for the primary time, and be part of me in pondering a number of issues under.
How A lot Will We See Of Shawnee Smith’s Amanda?
Noticed X’s first trailer confirmed past the masks of a pig, er, past the shadow of a doubt that Shawnee Smith’s Amanda Younger is again in motion as considered one of Jigsaw’s most doting apprentices. However since she solely exhibits up for the briefest of seconds within the promo, one has to surprise how a lot we’ll see of her within the prequel. Contemplating Amanda’s involvement isn’t being arrange as a shock third-act reveal, that would imply she’ll pop up early on and can work carefully with John. Maybe followers will see extra of what induced Amanda to begin shifting away from her mentor’s teachings to intention for extra deliberately violent traps and schemes.
What Different Noticed Characters Will Return?
With Noticed X going down early on on this franchise’s timeline, the possibilities are excessive for different longtime characters to pop up in some capability. With Amanda already checked off, the subsequent most definitely return we’ll see can be from Cary Elwes’ Dr. Lawrence Gordon, the main focus of the primary movie whose return in Noticed 3D confirmed he’d been working with John since being nursed again to well being. (He may not even be again to feeling wholesome, relying on how far after the primary movie’s occasions this takes place.)
Apart from Lawrence, the sequel might additionally function Matt Passmore’s Dr. Logan Nelson, the doctor who by chance sealed John’s cancer-ridden destiny with an X-ray mix-up. His existence was solely revealed in Jigsaw, so this might enable for the franchise to play up how concerned he was with Jigsaw’s lure development and establishing the victims. Clearly there are many different shock characters who might present up, however the trailer does additionally appear to function dialogue delivered by Costas Mandylor’s Detective Mark Hoffman, whose five-film stretch went from Noticed III via Noticed 3D. So will he be again as nicely?
How Will Noticed X Reference The First Two Movies?
One of many bizarre joys of the Noticed franchise is seeing all of the wacky connections the screenwriters make with every successive movie. With this being a prequel, it’d take a whole lot of work to make a Spiral reference work, however followers can little doubt anticipate loads of direct connections to James Wan’s preliminary entry and its Darren Lynn Bousman-helmed sequel. Hopefully there will probably be one thing contemporary concerned, since we’ve seen fairly a bit from that early period already. I’d put cash on the upcoming tenth movie ending with somebody from Workforce Jigsaw establishing the peephole-gun lure that kills Tony Nappo’s Gus within the second movie.
How Will Noticed X Add Recent Context To John Kramer’s Legacy?
Is it simply me, or is it weird for a movie franchise to dedicate this many films to justifying a monster’s sadistic crimes whereas on the identical time exhibiting off extra of his monstrous actions. Noticed X is being touted as a private story for Jigsaw, and can happen at a Mexican medical facility the place he went for an experimental process to treatment his most cancers, solely to appreciate it was all a rip-off. So viewers already know stepping into why and the way John was screwed over, and why and the way he is going about avenging such wrongdoing.
And so, coupled with the truth that this trailer appears to indicate off a whole lot of what we are able to anticipate to see relating to the medical workers, I am confused about how this prequel will add something essential to Jigsaw’s lore. Except, in fact, the plot synopsis is simply providing up a part of what followers will see within the finalized movie, with the story going in several and unknown instructions later in its runtime. There’ll clearly be an enormous twist, as is the norm, however would not it’s cool if the twist was that the trailer solely confirmed off what occurs within the first 10 minutes of the film?
Has John Kramer Ever Has A Optimistic Expertise With Medical Professionals?
To piggyback off of the earlier entry, perhaps Noticed X‘s endgame twist is that every little thing we find out about John’s life has been a lie, and the truth is that all the docs, nurses, and health workers he is ever handled have been fully sincere professionals who by no means mishandled something, and delivered the perfect service and recommendation potential. It is simply been the Jigsaw a part of John’s mind making him suppose that each one of those persons are accountable for his trunctated lifespan.
However since that is most likely not going to occur, I do should surprise if there’s an concept for a scene out within the ethers through which John has a rash, goes to a clinic for the rash, and will get some medicated cream that clears it up instantly. It isn’t an excellent scene, I’l agree, however this franchise has been shockingly fixated on ensuring roughly half of Jigsaw’s targets come from the medical world. He might have feasibly simply made that his complete gimmick. If solely Leigh Whannell had simply made the educated guess in 2004 that the primary movie would result in a follow-up 19 years later that will instantly comply with these preliminary occasions, whereas additionally incorporating all the particulars from the opposite 8 movies that hadn’t come out but.
Many of the above questions will probably be answered when Noticed X hits theaters on Friday, September 29, 2023. Whereas ready, try the place to stream the primary 9 Noticed movies, together with Jigsaw and Spiral.
