Tobin Bell may not have been able to disclose the details of Saw VI – since he hasn’t learned them yet – but that didn’t stop the horror icon from sharing with us, at this weekend’s Sawmania, how he’d like to see the arch-villain’s philosophy continue to reveal itself in the franchise’s future installments. Bell also gave us some info about the other new horror films he has due out, and based on his comments, we suspect he may soon be playing the Devil himself! Read on!

With each Saw film we see a different side of Jigsaw – where would you like to see the next film go in this respect?  And, if you know, how do you think he could develop in the future?
I’ll answer the last part first… I don’t know.  As for the other part, y’know, I think some of the concepts, some of the things that are on his mind are what makes the films are layered as they are – apart from the wonderful traps and tricks and twists and frightful moments.  If you can add other textures to the films that make them a little bit smarter then I think that’s really good to do.  And surprisingly enough, a lot of the fans that I talk to talk about those concepts.  They don’t really talk about the traps as you might think.  They will often say “What’s your favorite trap?” or “My favorite trap was…” [but] I’ll have groups of skateboarders come up to me – and these are twelve-year-old kids – and they’ll talk about some of the concepts in the films like “People who have everything and appreciate nothing.”  This has somehow resonated in people’s minds.  So I think if young people are thinking about that it’s a good thing.  Because it moves us all to appreciate our lives, cause we have a lot and sometimes we think about people in Africa and people who have nothing – and we have everything.  It’s a funny thing.  It’s kind of weird.

So it’s strange to think you’ve possibly turned a generation of young people onto philosophy?
Yeah.  I mean, I think it has much to do with the fact that these concepts are surrounded by a lot of intensity.  When they get spoken you’re raw on some level.  And so they seem to linger in people’s minds.  Like kids will say to me, “Remember when you said to the detective ‘If you knew the exact moment of your death how would that change how you live your life?’”  So they’re still talking about that, and that was Saw II.  It’s three, four films ago.  That’s all good stuff from my point of view.

Are you involved in the Saw video game?  Will you be voicing the character?
I am.

Okay, so that might be the next Saw project we see you in…
Yeah.

Any idea how Jigsaw is involved in the plot of it?
No idea.  I’ll find out when I hit the studio.

You’ve got a bunch of other projects in development, and a few sound especially interesting. Bump and Stalked, for example.
Yeah, Stalked they’ve changed the title to The Harvest.  They’re both pretty scary films.  In Bump I play a deputy sheriff who’s up against a lot of big problems in his town, and it’s a very interesting script.  I’m looking forward to playing this guy because he’s a very dynamic character.   The Harvest is a historical thing that goes back all the way to the 1700s.  So I think it’s going to be a film that people will enjoy.

Any other projects we should be on the lookout for?
I’m in post-production on a film called Highway 61.  It’s a rock-n-roll road comedy.

With the Devil!
Yes, with the Devil.  [Laughs.]  It’s about a band that’s going nowhere unless they decide to sell their soul to the Devil in order to get ahead.  So they travel across country to the junction of Highway 61 and 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Robert Johnson originally sold his soul to the Devil in the late 1950s.

Okay, now who do you play in this film? The band’s manager?
I’m not supposed to give anything away.  So I think I’ll pass on that. [Laughs.]