History Trivia / Saw3D

* IKnewIt: In this film, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Dr. Gordon survived the first film and had been disciple of Jigsaw working behind the scenes since then]]. Some fans theorized this originally based on a brief part of the video shown to Michael Marks in ''Saw II''. A cloaked figure with a limp (assumed later to be Jigsaw) is seen next to an operating table. ''Saw 3D'' reveals that this WAS in fact [[spoiler:Dr. Gordon]].

* AbsurdlyShortProductionTime: In a series which has always had filming times of less than three months, ''Saw 3D'' had the longest time so far, at 63 days.

** The movie's storyline was originally going to be shared between two movies, the second one being centered around [[spoiler:what Gordon did over the course of the previous movies as an accomplice of Jigsaw]]. Due to the underperforming box office results of ''Saw VI'', the executives condensed the two planned movies into ''Saw 3D''.
** A massively cunning, yet very dickish move by Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures happened two weeks before the shooting of ''Saw 3D'' began. They contractually forced the director of ''Saw VI'', Kevin Greutert, to return and direct ''Saw 3D'' while having David Hackl, the original director who previously directed ''Saw V'', shifted over to a yet-unconfirmed Lionsgate movie. This was because Greutert was originally set to direct ''[[Film/ParanormalActivity Paranormal Activity 2]]'', which was scheduled to be released on the same date as ''Saw 3D'' in a similar situation to how the first ''Paranormal Activity'' film contended with ''Saw VI'' in 2009. Needless to say, both Greutert and Hackl didn't take that move very well.

* FranchiseKiller: ''Film/SawVI'' was by no means a flop overall, and was widely considered by critics and fans of the series to be [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel a much better film]] than the previous two movies released before it. However, it was by far the lowest-grossing film in the series, especially at the domestic box office, where its intake of just $27.7 million was barely half that of the first and fifth films (the previous lowest-grossing entries in the series). When combined with the box office failure of similar films in the late 2000s and the blockbuster success of ''Film/ParanormalActivity'', the film that ''Saw VI'' [[DuelingWorks competed with]] that October (and which couldn't have been [[NothingIsScarier more different]] in terms of tone), Creator/{{Lionsgate}} saw the writing on the wall and pulled the plug after the next installment. While ''Saw 3D'' was a hit [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff internationally]] (with its box office intake outside North America setting a series record), it wasn't enough to save the franchise, not with its domestic box office performance being the second-worst in the series behind only ''Saw VI''. Whereas new ''Saw'' movies had come out annually before ''Saw 3D'', to the point where ads for later films credibly marketed it as a Halloween tradition, it would be [[SequelGap seven years after that]] before the franchise got a [[Film/{{Jigsaw}} new installment]], and it took another four years to get [[Film/Spiral2021 yet another film]], and then two more after that to get [[Film/{{Saw X}} another.]]

* FranchiseKiller: ''Film/SawVI'' was by no means a flop overall, and was widely considered by critics and fans of the series to be [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel a much better film]] than the previous two movies released before it. However, it was by far the lowest-grossing film in the series, especially at the domestic box office, where its intake of just $27.7 million was barely half that of the first and fifth films (the previous lowest-grossing entries in the series). When combined with the box office failure of similar films in the late 2000s and the blockbuster success of ''Film/ParanormalActivity'', the film that ''Saw VI'' [[DuelingWorks competed with]] that October (and which couldn't have been [[NothingIsScarier more different]] in terms of tone), Creator/{{Lionsgate}} saw the writing on the wall and pulled the plug after the next installment. While ''Saw 3D'' was a hit [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff internationally]] (with its box office intake outside North America setting a series record), it wasn't enough to save the franchise, not with its domestic box office performance being the second-worst in the series behind only ''Saw VI''. Whereas new ''Saw'' movies had come out annually before ''Saw 3D'', to the point where ads for later films credibly marketed it as a Halloween tradition, it would be [[SequelGap seven years after that]] before the franchise got a [[Film/{{Jigsaw}} new installment]], and it took another four years to get [[Film/Spiral2021 yet another film]].

** Ultimately, while it wasn't a box office failure like ''Saw VI'', ''Saw 3D'' still made less revenue than a good number of its predecessors, on top of becoming the ''Saw'' film with the worst critical reception from critics and audiences alike. In addition to most of the aforementioned aspects, many of the detractors claimed that the script was rather poor with corny lines and over-the-top moments that make it hard to take the film seriously at any point, and some also stated that ''Saw VI'' would have been a better finale to the series by making its ending a proper closure, rather than just another of the bunch of {{Sequel Hook}}s the franchise has had so far. It wasn't until [[SequelGap seven years later]] (during which ''Saw 3D'' was largely considered as the series' FranchiseKiller) that the next film in a re-launch of the franchise, ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'', came out from a pitch by newcomer writers Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger.

** Ultimately, while it wasn't a box office failure like ''Saw VI'', ''Saw 3D'' still made less revenue than a good number of its predecessors, on top of becoming the ''Saw'' film with the worst critical reception from critics and audiences alike. In addition to most of the aforementioned aspects, many of the detractors claimed that the script was rather poor with corny lines and over-the-top moments that make it hard to take the film seriously at any point, and some also stated that ''Saw VI'' would have been a better finale to the series by making its ending a proper closure, rather than just another of the bunch of {{Sequel Hook}}s the series has had so far. It wasn't until [[SequelGap seven years later]] (during which ''Saw 3D'' was largely considered as the series' FranchiseKiller) that the next film in a re-launch of the series, ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'', came out from a pitch by newcomer writers Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger.

** Ultimately, while it wasn't a box office failure like ''Saw VI'', ''Saw 3D'' still made less revenue than a good number of its predecessors, on top of becoming the ''Saw'' film with the worst critical reception from critics and audiences alike. In addition to most of the aforementioned aspects, many of the detractors claimed that the script was rather poor with corny lines and over-the-top moments that make it hard to take the film seriously at any point, and some also stated that ''Saw VI'' would have been a better finale to the series by making its ending a proper closure than just another of the bunch of {{Sequel Hook}}s the series has had so far. It wasn't until [[SequelGap seven years later]] (during which ''Saw 3D'' was largely considered as the series' FranchiseKiller) that the next film in a re-launch of the series, ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'', came out from a pitch by newcomer writers Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger.