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Austin American-Statesman LI FE 0 VI ES Friday. September 6. 2002 E5 O'CONNELL: Leatherface kept under wraps Dinner 'til Midnight Friday Saturday Smoked Prime Rib Seafood Saffron Pasta Salmon Paloma Marcus Nispei Director of 'Chainsaw' remake is filming outside of Austin. Circleville and Walberg. Shooting continues in the area until, appropriately, Friday the 13th.

"The Fighting Lady Hippos," Fuller says. "You've got to love that" Fuller joined with Form and college pal Bay to create Platinum Dunes with a goal of making films for less than $15 million each. "Chainsaw" should come in at under $10 million, he says, and the horror genre fit perfectly with their plans. Filming days are long, but Nispei is efficient, Fuller says. "A lot of people think remaking a classic film is a no-win proposition," Fuller says.

"We don't agree. In our minds we are retelling a story based on Ed Gein's life. We're trying to tell a little different story than they told in the original." Gein, a 1950s mass murderer from the Midwest who wore the skin of his victims, is seen as the inspiration for film characters ranging from Norman Bates in "Psycho" to Buffalo Bill in "The Silence of the Lambs" to Leatherface in the many "Chainsaw" films. relationship with Nispei on music videos such as The Fu-gees' "Ready or Not." "The intended audience I shoot for them," Pearl says. "It's not a stretch." Proud mom Marietta is on the set today.

Her other son, Austin lawyer Tom Pearl, is playing a detective and she was there with adviceabout Daniel Pearl's return to "Chainsaw." "I said, 'I think you should do it. It's been very good for you on your resume," she says as the family joins the movie crew under a tent during a dinner break. What did she think of the original? "I thought it was funny," she says. "It was supposed to be," Pearl responds. "Well, you made it," Marietta says.

Brad Fuller, clad in a Hutto track team T-shirt, surveys the set and looks more like a gaffer than one of the guys in charge. He and fellow producer Andrew Form have fallen for Hutto, the tiny town they drive past on the way to film locations in Taylor, Count Morgan Dover-Pearl, a recent Southern Methodist University theater grad, on the list "Chainsaw" virgins. And her uncle Daniel Pearl is The Link. Sure, original director Hooper and his co-writer Kim Henkel are credited as co-producers and provided the first draft of a script. But Pearl, the 23-year-old, wet-behind-the-ears cinematog-rapher on the first film, is back in the same role at age 52, his goatee streaked with gray, his head now shaved clean.

"People ask me, 'Is it going to be as gritty and grainy as the last No. I did that," Pearl says. "There's no point in making the exact same film with the exact same look." And his return has more to do with a long working Leatherface isn't on the set as Biel runs from him to the door of the decrepit trailer. If he were, you likely wouldn't be reading this because the media has been kept at a distance from the villain's latest incarnation. A Texas Monthly writer was asked to leave for fear he'd reveal Leath-erface's newest look.

Rumors are that his human skin mask is kept hidden until the camera rolls. But there is no doubt he is somewhere lurking behind Biel as she cowers in the trailer. Cut. A production assistant hands out Krispy Kreme doughnuts, while another doles out mosquito spray. Biel exits the trailer and prepares for yet another take.

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We're really trying to make it realistic, terrify ing and beautiful at the same time." Biel was attracted to the part for its action, and the strong character she plays in the film. "We don't really think about it," she says of Tobe Hooper's original film. "This is a different interpretation. We do want the cult following of the movie to be able to respect it." For the generation that doesn't know the original but was weaned on grinning homages like "Scary Movie," Biel sees a clear motive: "We want to scare them to death." Pucker up By Kenneth Turan LOS ANGE1 TIMES "Read My Lips" is a battle of wills and desires set in a thriller context, a violent meditation on the unlikely persistence of love, an investigation of a difficult and compelling relationship be-tween two abused individuals seeking revenge for the unfairness of their 'Read My Lips' lives. Directorco-writer Jacques Audiard, who has a novelist's gift for creating personalities, is an intensely curious investigator of psychological states.

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