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Lawrence Gordon (born March 25, 1936) is an American producer and motion picture executive. [1] He specializes in producing action-oriented films and other genres. Some of his most popular productions include 48 Hours (1982), Predator (1987), Die Hard (1988), Die Hard 2 (1990), Predator 2 (1990), Point Break (1991), Boogie Nights (1997), Lara ...
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- Before Saw: John Kramer’s Backstory
- Before Saw: Detective Hoffman & Matthews’ Backstory
- Before Saw: John Becomes Jigsaw
- Adam & Dr. Gordon’s Test
- Between Saw & Saw II - Bobby Dagen, The Black Box
- Detective Matthews’ Test
- Between Saw II & III/IV - Nerve Gas House, Jill Tuck, & Art Blank
- Jeff & Lynn Denlon’S Test
- Detective Rigg’s Test
- Hoffman Versus Strahm
The majority of John Kramer’s backstory is presented through flashbacks in Saw IV. John is shown to be a successful civil engineer and devoted husband to his wife, Jill Tuck. In Saw III, flashbacks show John designing his first building, the Gideon Meatpacking Plant. In Saw IV, John encourages his wife to open the Homeward Bound Clinic for addicts....
While John Kramer is living a happy life as a civil engineer, in the world of law enforcement, Detective Eric Matthews is faking evidence in order to get convictions in some of his cases. This results in many arrests—including Amanda Young—as shown in Saw II. Also at this time, Detective Mark Hoffman and Officer Daniel Rigg investigate the case of ...
Soon after Gideon’s death, Jill and John separate and then get a divorce. Not too long afterwards, Dr. Lawrence Gordon diagnoses John with an inoperable brain tumor, shown in Saw II. Shortly after, shown in Saw IV, John hears about an experimental therapy which he believes might help cure his tumor, and asks William Eastonto cover the cost. When Ea...
Setting off the events of the first Sawfilm, Detective Tapp hires Adam Stanheight, a photographer, to spy on Dr. Gordon, as he still believes that Gordon is guilty. John becomes aware of this relationship and decides to use it as part of his next game. Soon after, Dr. Gordon and Adam are both abducted and brought to an underground bathroom where Jo...
Between the events of Saw and the beginning of Saw II, Bobby Dagen releases a tell-all book about surviving one of Jigsaw’s games, an event which did not happen. This is shown in Saw 3D before Bobby is tested in one of Jigsaw’s games. Also during this time, as audiences see in Saw V, John Kramer gives a black box to his executor which he says is to...
Saw IIbegins with the police tracking Jigsaw, now extremely weak and ill, to his lair. But once they capture him and bring him back to the police station, John reveals that another test is in place. He, along with the covert help of Detective Hoffman, has kidnapped a group of people that Detective Eric Matthews used planted evidence to convict, and...
In a flashback from Saw III, the audience learns that Detective Eric Matthews is able to escape the bathroom by breaking his foot and slipping it out of the ankle cuff. He confronts and beats Amanda, demanding to know where his son is, but Amanda fights him off and leaves him for dead once more. In another flashback from Saw IV, Hoffman drags Detec...
In Saw III, as John’s health has been declining, Amanda has taken over Jigsaw’s work, designing her own traps. Amanda reveals that she is convinced that people don’t really change and Jigsaw’s tests have no real effect, so her traps are inescapable. One such test is a former patient at Jill’s clinic, Troy, who Amanda locked into an impossible test ...
Happening at the same time as the Denlons' test in Saw III, Saw IVsees a SWAT team led by Rigg and Hoffman raid an underground area where they find Detective Kerry’s corpse. She has now been missing for four days. At the same time, Hoffman places Eric Matthews in a trap and ties himself up nearby, posing as a secondary victim. Shortly after, Art Bl...
Saw Vopens with Agent Strahm discovering the secret door in the sickroom that Hoffman had used before. A tape there warns him not to go on, and he ignores it, only to find and be attacked by Hoffman. Strahm wakes up in the cube trap, which is meant to be inescapable, yet he manages to survive anyway by performing a tracheotomy on himself. Meanwhile...
May 21, 2021 · Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) Dr. Lawrence Gordon was the main test subject of the original Saw movie and was famously forced to cut his foot off to escape a disgusting bathroom trap. For years, it was believed Dr. Gordon died of blood loss, but a long-held fan theory turned out to be true, as it was revealed he had survived to become one of ...
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Lawrence Gordon. Producer: Prey. Lawrence Gordon (Producer) has been one of the entertainment industry's most prolific and successful producers in a career spanning six decades.
Lawrence Gordon. Producer: Prey. Spanning six decades, Lawrence Gordon has maintained a career as one of the entertainment industry's most prolific and successful producers and executives.
