One of the faces of horror, Eli Roth, has been pretty quiet lately as he's been off in Berlin filming his scenes for Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds. Now that he's back in the saddle again, the director of Cabin Fever and the Hostel films has finally reveals his plans for the forthcoming year. They include an untitled big-budgeted monster movie and "the sickest, bloodiest, most violent slasher movie," which is the feature-length version of his Thanksgiving faux trailer from Grindhouse. Read on for the skinny.
“I’m almost done with my new script,” Roth told MTV. “I was actually almost done with it before ‘Basterds,’ but I had to put it down, and that was actually a good thing I took time away from it, but I’m going to finish that up and start shooting this fall.”
Roth continued to shroud the film in secrecy and the way he's talking makes me think this isn't Cotton he's referring to. “I don’t want to give away the title yet, because I have to make sure I own it 100%, but it’s going to be something that is really fun with lots of mass destruction,” he said. “I wanted to do something along the lines of ‘Transformers’ or ‘Cloverfield’ that was a little more science fiction-based, and with lots of chaos and mass destruction.”
“I don’t want to say what [the monster is] yet,” Roth teases to MTV. “Once it gets set up, I will let everyone know. It is not aliens or robots or a virus - it’s a little more grounded. But when people hear it they are going to be like ‘That is going to be insane!’.”
The big news that was revealed in the interview is that Roth plans to use leftover money from the shoot to finally bring us a feature-length version of THANKSGIVING, the faux trailer used in the GRINDHOUSE film from 2007.
“The plan is this: I want to do a huge budget movie, but tack on three weeks to the end of it and shoot ‘Thanksgiving’,” he revealed. “I want to do an $80 million dollar movie, and then schedule three weeks at the end to quickly shoot a $5 million dollar movie.”
Roth said that after he shoots his untitled sci-fi blockbuster, he’ll get back to his roots by filming “the sickest, bloodiest, most violent slasher movie,” he said of the “Thanksgiving” flick inspired by the holiday-themed horror classics of the ‘80s. “I want to make the highest body count slasher film I can.”
yeah, i'm intrigued too! i know Roth gets a bad rap (and he DOES deserve some of the crap he gets. he sometimes thinks he's WAY better than he is) but i'm up for checking out what he has to give us.
i love CLOVERFIELD-esque horror/thrillers, so i'm sold. and i'd like to see a feature length THANKSGIVING. that trailer was a jillion times better than the full length DEATHPROOF.
I want Cell. Actually I want Cell to go to a different person, so this might (in the end) be great news for me. Cell deserves more respect than Roth can give it.
I didn't like Hostel 2 so much, but it'd be awesome to see a full-length, and somewhat more serious version of the trailer that ruled Grindhouse. Cabin Fever was hilarious fun, and Hostel was incredible for its time. Eli Roth does indeed catch a lot of shit for no damned reason, I'd love for him to make a movie that would finally shut up all his detractors.
holy fuckin I think I just cummed a fuckin monster movie holy shit. Dudes can you picture a monster movie by ELI roth LOL it will be like the monster will take a person and ripped them in two LOL...
Wait a second!!! Wasn't it not that long ago Roth proclaimed he was moving AWAY from 'Horror' and that he was done with the whole 'ultra-violent' thing? Make up your damn mind, man!
MKultra138 do you mean thta the monster is actually a giant steaming pile of shit?
Woo Eli could call the film It Came from The Toilet!!! I'm James Rolfe may have something to say about that!
But yeah I would love to see a monster movie with a more well grounded reasonable explanation like giant walking lump of Poo that eats people!!!! Go Eli!!!
I cant wait!!!
Roth is a narcissistic ass hole but Cabin Fever was quite good and I love the idea of Thanksgiving. I bet it rocks if he can keep from turning it into a teen T&A turd.
I'm not so quick to believe that this movie will happen. He was given "Cell"....movie never got made. He was going to make "Trailer Trash"...movie never got made. Now he says he'll make this. I don't really see any studio giving him $80 million considering that his biggest hit has only made around 40-something million, and his last film he made was a bit of a dud financially.
Awesome horror news. I like Eli's style. From Cabin Fever to Hostel, he delivers, so I would bet Thanksgiving and his big budget flick will be ones to see.
why does everyone bitch about him ? HE MAKES ORIGINAL MOVIES!!! now go over to the H2 thread and diss Rob Zombie. lol.
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