Who was Leigh Whannell's friend who directed Saw?
Saw (2004 film) Saw is a 2004 American horror film directed by James Wan. It is Wan's feature film directorial debut. The screenplay, written by Leigh Whannell, is based on a story by Wan and Whannell. The film stars Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, Ken Leung, Tobin Bell and Leigh Whannell. In the film, Elwes and Whannell portray two men who awake to find themselves chained in a large dilapidated bathroom, with one being ordered to kill the other or his family will die. It is the first installment in the "Saw" franchise.
Friend Request Friend Request (released overseas as Unfriend) is a 2016 English-language German supernatural-psychological horror film directed by Simon Verhoeven and written by Verhoeven, Matthew Ballen, and Philip Koch. The film stars Alycia Debnam-Carey, William Moseley, Connor Paolo, Brit Morgan, Brooke Markham, Sean Marquette, Liesl Ahlers, and Shashawnee Hall. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on 7 January 2016 in Germany and 22 September 2017 in the United States by Entertainment Studios Motion Picutres.