21 Facts About Leigh Whannell

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Leigh Whannell is an Australian screenwriter, actor, film producer, and film director.

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Leigh Whannell is best known for writing films directed by his friend James Wan, including Saw, Dead Silence, Insidious, and Insidious: Chapter 2.

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Leigh Whannell wrote the first installment, co-wrote the second and third installments, was producer or executive producer for all the films, and appeared as the Adam character in three of the installments.

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Leigh Whannell was the writer of the Saw video game, and co-writer of the 2014 film Cooties.

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Leigh Whannell has described the show in a 2011 blog post:.

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In 2003, Leigh Whannell appeared in a minor role in The Matrix Reloaded, as well as in the video game Enter The Matrix as the character "Axel".

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Leigh Whannell played Adam in the film, one of the main characters.

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The popularity of Saw led to a sequel, Saw II, which was directed and co-written by Darren Lynn Bousman, and on which Leigh Whannell co-wrote and revised Bousman's original script, titled The Desperate.

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Around the same time, Leigh Whannell returned to collaborate with Wan; they wrote a film called Dead Silence, which Wan directed.

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In 2006, the duo composed the story for Saw III; Leigh Whannell wrote the screenplay for the third time.

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Leigh Whannell has a featured cameo, reprising his role as Adam.

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Leigh Whannell's writing partner, Wan, was chosen to direct the film Death Sentence, the first feature film with their participation that they did not write themselves.

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Leigh Whannell has a small role as Spink in Death Sentence.

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In 2008, Leigh Whannell took off his "writing hat" to perform alongside Nathan Phillips in Dying Breed, a low-budget Australian horror film about a team of zoologists exploring the Tasmanian wilderness to locate a creature thought extinct, the thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.

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Leigh Whannell wrote the script for and acted in the 2011 paranormal thriller film, Insidious, which was directed by Wan and produced by Oren Peli.

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In relation to the Saw franchise, Leigh Whannell stated, in 2011:.

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Media reports were published in mid-2013 in regard to Cooties, a film project that Leigh Whannell is an executive producer, actor and screenwriter for.

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Leigh Whannell made his directing debut on the sequel Insidious: Chapter 3, which he wrote.

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In 2014, Leigh Whannell expressed possible interest in returning to the Saw franchise; however, in a November 2013 post on his personal blog, Leigh Whannell described a new chapter beyond his partnership with Wan, as the director had finally reached his goal of making epic-style blockbuster productions.

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Leigh Whannell was writer-director of the science fiction body horror film Upgrade, which was released by Blumhouse Tilt and OTL Releasing in 2018 to positive reception.

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Leigh Whannell is currently working on a reboot of Escape from New York.