“Saw X” director calls post-credits scene 'the most fan-servicey thing we did in this film'
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Warning: This article contains spoilers from Saw X.
For most of its duration, Saw X details how Tobin Bell's John Kramer (a.k.a. Jigsaw) and Shawnee Smith's Amanda teach a gang of con artists a series of bloody lessons after the criminals falsely claim to have cured Kramer's cancer. But audience members who stick around for the movie's post-credits scene will be rewarded with the appearance of another Saw franchise villain, Costas Mandylor's twisted cop Mark Hoffman, who we see helping Jigsaw torture another of the con artists, Michael Beach's Henry.
Speaking with EW a week before the movie's premiere in theaters, Saw X director Kevin Greutert describes Mandylor's appearance in the horror prequel — which takes place between the events of the first two films in the series — as "probably the most fan servicey thing that we did in this film."
"I know that a lot of the really hardcore fans were hoping for that character to return to the series, and we gave it to them on a nice platter," he continues. "We needed to wrap up the story of the other character that we re-meet in the scene, but it was just having fun ourselves."
Alexandro Bolaños Escamilla/Lionsgate 'Saw X'
Franchise fans will probably notice that the scene takes place in the same filthy-looking bathroom as the principal setting for director James Wan's original 2004 Saw. Saw X production designer Anthony Stabley tells EW how he and his team studied the original film. "We looked at the tile, we were very precise in the way we recreated that," he says. "My set designers were pulling their hair a little because we wanted it to be so true. It's so iconic, so it was something that we were very excited to recreate."
Asked if that final scene, and Mandylor's appearance, hints at what might happen in any subsequent movie, Greutert replies the members of the Saw team are "superstitious about discussing" the possibility of another film before finding out how Saw X performs at the box office.
"After we finish every Saw film, we think, Well, there's no place left to go from here," continues Greutert, who edited the first five franchise entries before going on to direct 2009's Saw VI and 2010's Saw 3D. "In the case of this one, we have surviving characters that could come back in a Saw film or maybe there would be another storyline altogether, hopefully one that still includes Tobin Bell's character. But it's really too early to tell if there will be another Saw and what it would be."
Saw X is now playing in theaters.
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