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Lionsgate’s “Spiral: From the Book of Saw,” executive produced by and starring Chris Rock, was born as a kind of a reparation for a joke he made in his 2014 satire “Top Five.”
“I played an actor much like myself who’s got a movie coming out. And it’s going up against a Tyler Perry movie called ‘Boo,’” Rock says over Zoom. "Of course we lose out to ‘Boo’ in the movie but the thing is, I totally made up ‘Boo.’ I made up the artwork and it’s all my idea.”
Lionsgate, which has distributed 20 of Perry’s films, liked the idea so much that it greenlit and released “Boo! A Madea Halloween” and “Boo! 2” back to back in 2016 and 2017.