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- Dawson Casting: Shawnee Smith was 53 years old during the movie's filming. Amanda's exact age is never stated, but she's around the same age as in the chronologically-succeeding Saw II, which was released 18 years prior.
- Invisible Advertising: As with most of Lionsgate's other live-action films, especially non-theatrical films, Saw X's trailer was released two months before the film itself.
- Meaningful Release Date: Originally, Saw X was planned to be released just before Halloween, just like most of the other films in the Saw franchise. However, it later was brought forward by a few weeks, possibly to avoid competition with Five Nights at Freddy's (2023), which would have been released the same day in October.
- Release Date Change: The film was originally planned to be released on October 27, 2023, before later being moved forward to September 29 of the same year.
- Role Reprise:
- Shawnee Smith returns as Amanda Young since she was last seen 14 years ago in Saw VI.
- The Stinger marks Costas Mandylor's return as Mark Hoffman since his last appearance in Saw 3D, which was filmed and released about 13 years before.
- Screwed by the Lawyers: One promotional video for the film was a parody of AMC Theaters' "We Make Movies Better" ad, with Nicole Kidman replaced by Billy the Puppet and Jigsaw's tape voice specifically talking about the experience of watching a Saw movie and escaping a Jigsaw trap. AMC was not amused
, and ordered the ad pulled, though many unofficial reposts of it can be found on YouTube and the Reddit community dedicated to the series. - Sequel Gap: Although Saw X was released two years after the previous film, Spiral, it returns to the storyline spanning between Saw and Saw II as an Interquel. It was released almost 19 and 18 years, respectively, after those two films, and counting the rest of the first seven films up to Saw 3D, the gap is close to 13 years.
- Troubled Production: The film hit a very brief snag when, according to NME, first assistant editor Steve Forn had the cops called on him because his neighbors thought someone was being genuinely tortured. Turns out he was working on the Eye Vacuum Trap scene from home; the cops thought the incident was Actually Pretty Funny after everything was cleared up.
- What Could Have Been:
- Saw X was originally meant to be the ninth Saw film, having been in development since as early as 2018. Its production was put on hold when Lionsgate's VP approved Chris Rock's pitch for Spiral.
- Director Kevin Greutert briefly toyed with the concept of using Digital De-Aging to return Tobin Bell and Shawnee Smith to their Saw II-era looks, but ultimately decided not to go through with it for budgetary and story reasons:Greutert: [Who] knows how much it would have detracted from how we experience their characters if there was any buffer between their performance and the audience experience? I'm glad about, and totally fine with, the fact that we see them as a little bit older than they probably should look, but at least we get them fully.
- The aftermath of the Brain Surgery Trap was originally going to be shown, but it was scrapped. However, a still image of an artist's recreation of the aftermath can be found online. View at your own risk.
