Posted on May 19th, 2008 2:03 PM
by Mr. Shrek
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Saw V
Saw V director David Hackl recently spoke with MovieWeb about the next installment of this franchise. It's due in theaters on October 24.
Who actually does the designs for these traps?
Well, the past couple of years it was me for Saw II and Saw III and Tony Ianni, who was my art director, has now taken over as production designer. It's really a combination of people and it starts with the writers, myself and Darren (Lynn Bousman) working together to come up with the idea. We'll do sketches of things and see what's going to work.

These traps have so many criterias around them, so many things that they have to do. They have to look dangerous as hell but they have to be as safe as possible. They have to look like they can kill you but they can't really kill you. It's really difficult when you start to think of a trap.
So, how do you really do something where you run spikes through people and it goes through his wife on the other side, and make it look like it's going to work? There are so many elements to it. It is a group effort all the way along. Jason Ehl, our trap builder, is the real engineer.
He does the machine work, actually in his workshop. He's the mad scientist. He's got the computerized milling machines that cut out the perfect gear sizes, the perfect blades, the pistons and the servos that make these things work.
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