Since creating the franchise, Wan and Leigh Whannell have served as executive producers to the sequels Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D and the recent Jigsaw. In the United States only, Saw is the second highest grossing horror franchise, behind only the Friday the 13th films by a margin of $10 million. Since its inception, Saw has become the highest grossing horror franchise of all time worldwide in unadjusted dollars. This led the studio to greenlight the sequel Saw II, and later the rest of the Saw franchise based on the yearly success of the previous installment. This was over $100 million profit, over 80 times the production budget. The film ended up grossing $55 million in America, and $48 million in other countries, totaling over US$103 million worldwide. Īfter the release of the full-length Saw, the film was met with overwhelming success in the box office both domestically and internationally. Whannell also decided to star in the film. With the help of Charlie Clouser, who had composed the score for the film and a few stand-in actors, Wan and Whannell shot the film with relatively no budget. Upon completing the script, Wan and Whannell had wanted to select an excerpt from their script, later to be known as Saw and film it to pitch their film to studios. Prior to 2003, Wan and his friend, screenwriter Leigh Whannell, had begun writing a script based for a horror film, citing inspiration from their dreams and fears. Career 2000–2006: Debutīefore his success in the mainstream film industry, he made his first feature-length film, Stygian, with Shannon Young, which won 'Best Guerrilla Film' at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) in 2000.
Wan relocated from Perth to Melbourne, where he attended RMIT University. He attended Lake Tuggeranong College in Canberra, before returning to Perth as an adult. Wan and his family moved to Perth, Western Australia when he was seven. Wan was born on 26 February 1977 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia and is of Chinese descent. He also directed Dead Silence and Death Sentence (both 2007), Insidious (2010), The Conjuring and Insidious: Chapter 2 (both 2013), Furious 7 (2015), The Conjuring 2 (2016) and Aquaman (2018). Wan is known for directing the horror film Saw (2004) and creating Billy the Puppet. James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is a Malaysian-born Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer.
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