Darren Lynn Bousman, best known as the director of four films in the Saw franchise (Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, and 2021’s Spiral, starring Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson), has wrapped production of his latest film in Prague, according to his social media accounts.
Bousman spent more than 100 days abroad for the project, which included time in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Vienna, and Prague. According to photos posted to the director’s social media account, production in Prague has taken place over roughly the past three weeks.
On Instagram, the director posted a wrap photo featuring his wife and two children underneath Prague’s Charles Bridge.
“I had hundreds if not thousands of behind-the-scenes pictures of me directing (some of them with an academy award winning actor.) But nothing seemed to encapsulate the last 100 + days of being gone and away from Los Angeles.” Bousman writes on Instagram regarding the shot of his family, which was presumably snapped at a previous date.
“Being 42, a husband and father of two I’m in a much different headspace now than I was at 25 making Saw II. There wasn’t a day… an hour… a second that passed that these three were not on my mind. Every moment that I was away I was counting down to seeing these faces again. This was the hardest, most intense shoot of my life, but nothing could be harder than what this lady had to take care of while I was away.”
Details on the project are scarce, and information about its Prague shoot wasn’t even revealed from the usual avenues outside of Bousman’s own social media accounts.
Going by the director’s previous films, and an Instagram photo of a bloody broken leg, his latest is likely to be within the horror genre. Still, he teases that it will be a “romantic comedy.” The director also hints that he worked with an Oscar-winning actor on the project.
Prague locations utilized for Bousman’s new film are not known, but a picture of the director and crew members recently posted to the his Instagram account (seen at top) was snapped at the old Živnostenská Banka building on the Czech capital’s Na Příkopě street.
Coincidentally, the same location was also recently utilized for scenes in the Marvel series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and right now is being used to shoot scenes for the second season of Amazon’s Hunters.
Lead photo: Instagram / Darren Bousman
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