According to the scriptwriter of the upcoming Saw videogame, he is writing the script as though it was a cinematic release. The creator and chief scriptwriter of the original Saw masterpiece has been brought on to write the plot for the videogame as well and apparently he is looking forward to the new challenge at hand.
James Wan, who also happened to be the executive producer for the original and Saw III as well and this to say on his MySpace blog. “[Co-writer] Leigh and I are very excited about this new venture. We are big gaming fans and we think it would a great opportunity to continue the SAW legacy into a different platform/medium. Keeps things fresh for us anyway. A lot of people have asked us if we would be interested in writing another SAW movie…well, we are writing another SAW story…but it’s for the game."
The fact that Wan is also a huge gaming fan may help transform this adaptation into something even mildly respectable. Something that is unheard of with movie to game adaptations.
“We’re treating this story like the SAW movies with lots of twists and turns. We have no idea how that is going to apply to a computer game format, considering that most games are generally pretty simple in it’s plotting. Maybe its a good thing that Leigh and I are naive to the video game world and that we’re writing it like its a movie!”
The title is expected to release sometime in 2009, so it may be some time until we get a further update on the title.