Following the release of Jigsaw, Stolberg and Goldfinger had been pitching a new Saw film focused solely on rather than on any of his established apprentices to series veterans and , but then Burg and Koules called the duo to inform them about Rock's ideas for a new film, with Rock contacting them shortly afterwards to discuss his concept.
Though not strictly autobiographical, much of his comic standpoint seems rooted in his teenage experience; his strict parents, concerned about the inadequacies of the local school system, arranged to have the adolescent Rock bused to a nearly all-white high school in.
You just never know where people are at, you know?.