Leatherface is "trying to be a good person" in new film that's still called Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The A.V. Club

Such heady ethical questions are set to be addressed, though, by Netflix’s new Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel, which will apparently depict Leatherface, the series’ iconic killer, as a kinder, gentler Texas Chainsaw Massacre-er.

One who’s been hiding out sans masks since the events of the original film, and, in the words of producer Fede Álvarez, “trying to be a good person.” (This, per a new Entertainment Weekly profile on the film, due out on the streamer on February 18, 2022.).

Sadly, all these efforts to volunteer at his local butcher’s shop or do chainsaw-cut ice sculptures for the kiddos go awry, when a bunch of “millennial hipsters from Austin” arrive in his small town, attempting to gentrify it away from its bucolic values of simplicity, decency, and eating the long pig, that profane and wondrous flesh.