One of the truisms about contemporary Hollywood is that anything that can be remade will be remade. (Just this morning, someone in my Twitter feed forced all of their followers to confront the cold, hard fact that Back To The Future will undoubtedly be remade within the next five years, a statement that has haunted me for hours.) That often entails finding new ways to approach material, what with “reimaginings” and “reboots” and “requels” or whatever it is the titans of production industry are into today.

Which now includes giving us a handsome teen Leatherface for a planned Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel.

The Wrap reports that EastEnders (it’s a very popular British soap opera that I know about almost entirely thanks to Bridget Jones’s Diary) star Sam Strike is in negotiations to star in Millennium Films’ creatively titled Leatherface-centric prequel, Leatherface. The film “is expected to serve as an origin story that follows Leatherface’s early years in the 1970s.”

This “Leatherface-focused prequel” news first hit the wire back in August of last year, accompanied by little in the way of actual details. (Death, murder, and chainsaws are all but guaranteed, however.) Although this news doesn’t exactly illuminate what the film will be specifically about, it does finally give the world the handsome teen Leatherface they’ve always wanted. Wait, is that not a thing? It’s not a thing.

Strike’s team appears to be working overtime to turn the young actor into a big Hollywood star, as a recent spat of rumors hinted that Strike was in the running to play Spider-Man in Sony’s latest round of web-slinging sequels. Those rumors appear to have sprung entirely from some “cheeky” tweets from both Strike and his manager Lee Morgan (DigitalSpy has more information on the entire thing), which now sounds like a farce in light of this Leatherface news.

Inside directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo are directing the film, from a script by newbie screenwriter Seth M. Sherwood.