Leigh Whannell (created 17 January 1977) is an Australian screenwriter, producer, director and performer. Whannell and Wan will be the originators of the “Saw” franchise. Whannel composed the initial episode, co-composed the second and third episodes, was producer or executive producer for most of the pictures, and appeared as the “Adam Stanheight” character in four of the episodes.
Instead, they drift to the realm of cannibals who keep their ancestor Alexander Pearce’s preference for human flesh, and become quarry. Before and through the creation of Saw, Whannell sought medical treatment. “I was going through a little rough time health wise and enduring stress,” says Whannell. “The tension manifested itself in physical ways. I had been enduring headaches regular for almost annually. It was serious things and really began changing my life.” “It was strange to be 25 and sitting in a neurological ward and I am surrounded by those who really had brain tumors. It was really frightening and it was my first proper look at mortality. I truly wished to get my health back also it actually hammered home how important good health is. In case you have got that, you have got everything.” With regards to the Saw franchise, Whannell said, additionally in 2011: It Is tough to day definitively, because we do not possess the copyright for it. The producers could make 10 more if they needed to. However, if we are to take them at face value, they told us that they were undoubtedly done with that. They are quite exhausted. They have been making one a year every year for the last seven years, therefore I believe they want some time off. Media reports were printed in mid-2013 in respect to Cooties, a movie job that Whannell is an executive producer, actor and screenwriter for. Numerous Internet sources subsequently supported the upcoming generation of Insidious: Chapter 3 in October/November 2013, but the Screen Rant web site was the sole source to say that Whannell will likely result in composing the script and will soon be making directing debut.
Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Scream Scene, Fright Meter Awards
Movies
Insidious: Chapter 3, Saw, Insidious, Insidious: Chapter 2, Cooties, Saw II, Saw III, Dead Silence, The Mule, Death Sentence, The Matrix Reloaded, Dying Breed, The Pardon, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, One Perfect Day, Crush, Keep Watching, Lavalantula, Insidious: Chapter 4, Knife o...
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Recovery
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Capricorn
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We've got three drops of convict blood in us, because we are from Australia. We are used to oppression.
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All of a sudden, I'm on set and I'm like, "Oh yeah, I have to spend this whole film wet." Someone should have really told me but I can't say that because I wrote it.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid, and James and I had been talking about wanting to make a film for many years before this. Even though we wrote the film as a means to an end, so that James would have something to direct and I could have something to act in, it wasn't a slough for me to get through it because I love writing. It took me a long time only because I felt like it was all or nothing, that this script had to be good enough to compete at a world level. We didn't want it to be something that was something that was pretty good for a couple of guys from Melbourne. We wanted it to be a good film on a par with other independent films like Run, Lola, Run and Pi and Memento, these cool thrillers that had ticking-clock gimmicks to them. They're the type of films we wanted to be up there with. [on 'Saw']
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I wouldn't say that was entirely non-deliberate. I do think men can be especially selfish, very focused on what they're doing. Women often the mother character in the film cares for the child more than she cares for herself, and just from my own point of view, I felt that the men in the film are more the type of people Jigsaw would have a major problem with. [on stereotypical roles for men and women in films and how it applied to his 'Saw']
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He is allergic to gluten.
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Welcomed a daughter, named Sabine Silver, with wife Corbett Tuck in March 2013.
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To help sell his concept for the jigsaw killer thriller Saw (2004), he shot a scene in which he appears to be ensnared in a bear trap. There were no special effects involved; he actually had to place the teeth of the rusty bear trap in his mouth to make it seem real.
$55 Million
