"Jigsaw is dead," producer Mark Burg revealed Wednesday (June 13), sitting in a dimly lit bar alongside "Saw" masterminds Darren Lynn Bousman, Oren Koules and Tobin Bell. "Everybody knows that they killed him at the end of 'Saw III' ... so the challenge for us was, how do you continue the franchise with Jigsaw being dead?"

With the fourth installment of the super-successful, super-secretive franchise having recently wrapped filming in Toronto, the group convened to give its first interviews about the series that has become an annual Halloween tradition for filmgoers (see "Jigsaw's Already Back For More? 'Saw III' Team Sets Up 'Saw IV' ").

But unlike the other flicks, "Saw IV" would seem to no longer have a villain after fans watched Jigsaw get his neck sliced open and Amanda (Shawnee Smith) get shot in the last volume (see "Jigsaw Gets A Girlfriend In 'Saw III,' But Don't Expect Any Love Scenes"). In many ways, the interviews are marking the beginning of a cat-and-mouse game between fans and filmmakers that would make Jigsaw proud. 

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