Despite all good reason or common sense, word is that there will not only be a Saw V, but also a Saw VI - both once again to be released right around Halloween. As if that weren’t sufficient mixed blessing for you, Jigsaw will play a role in both. Somehow.

Tobin Bell–Twisted Pictures’ Golden Boy?

Now…at this point, I’m groaning with dismay. If you’ve seen Saw IV, and if you’re sufficiently motivated to read an article about it, chances are you have, then you know that from the very beginning of Saw IV, Jigsaw was riding a coroner’s slab. Which already is enough to baffle me - I seem to recall ol’ Jigsaw and his coterie of victims and protege-victims getting sealed up nice and tight at the end of three. But I digress somewhat - the point is, Jigsaw is DEAD. Like dead-dead. Dead-for-ever dead, if you read Congo. Now that makes an… interesting… point. How the deuce are we gonna get this gravelly-voiced psychopath back for two more parties if he’s slab meat in a morgue?

We’re Running Unsettlingly Low On Options, People!

Therefore, just for fun, I will now place odds on the ways and means by which this thing can be revived.

2:1 — Flashback A Go-Go. Much like in four, we will be jumping around the space-time continuum so much it will make an episode of Star Trek: Voyager seem logical and coherent.

10:1 — Jigsaw’s Not Really Dead. Okay, granted… he’s slab meat, but that may not be the actual Jigsaw. Maybe it’s yet another replacement! Anyone bother to check and see if that was a latex mask? He’s done it before, maybe he can do it again.

25:1 — The Greater Jigsaw Theory. We’ve all seen Jigsaw’s capacity for manipulation, going as far back as ep. one. This long shot assumes that there is in fact a whole other Jigsaw orchestrating Tobin Bell’s “Jigsaw”. Call it the Sith Theory of Jigsaw if you must, but if our Jigsaw was just a Jigsaw Padawan, that means there is another out there.

50:1 — The Sci-Fi Sampler. Now we’re just getting ludicrous. If our slab rider is a clone, android, pod person, or other similar science fiction-y monstrosity, that means this long shot paid off.

100:1 — Let’s Do The Time Warp Again! At this point, I’m desperate. Anything involving temporal mechanics - wormholes, alternate versions, time travelers - qualifies in this pretty much impossible guess.

And The Sad Part Is? Somethings Got To Be Right.

Call it what you will, folks… the point is, Twisted Pictures does not plan to launch a Saw sequel without the good Tobin Bell riding herd, and that means Wan, Whannell and co. are going to have to really, really tap dance to figure out a way around this boondoggle.

And sadly, we’re going to be there to see it.

But definitely not sad is the wide array of Saw based trivia currently available to play on Kwanzoo.

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