Tuesday, May 10, 2005
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There have been rumors floating around for quite sometime regarding Lions Gate's planned sequel to their successful release of Eli Roth's Cabin Fever- and yet nothing has seemed to develop... or has it? According to Adam Green, writer/director of Hatchet and clean up writer for Stir of Echoes 2, the second Fever is on hold because of Eli Roth, read on for this interesting story...
Fangoria reports this very interesting news:
The much-anticipated sequel to Eli Roth’s splattery success CABIN FEVER is currently in legal limbo and may never be made, according to Adam Green, writer/director of the new horror film HATCHET. Green was tapped to script the follow-up, which is currently caught in the middle of a tug of war between Roth and CABIN FEVER distributor Lions Gate Films.
"I wrote what was supposed to be the draft," Green tells Fango. "Lions Gate came to me, based on my script for HATCHET, and asked me for an idea. I gave them the concept, they hired me, they paid me, there’s a contract, I wrote it and it was going into production."
It was at that point, according to Green, that "Roth got very angry with Lions Gate. He really wanted to do it. He has written three different scripts for CABIN FEVER 2 and they [Lions Gate] didn’t like them. Now it’s all tied up in legal issues. The last I heard was that CABIN FEVER 2 was in limbo and, if it doesn’t get fixed soon, there's a chance that the movie will never happen, because it has already been so long since the first one."
Green has never actually met Roth, but says he can understand how the filmmaker might feel. "I can completely see his point of view. If it was me and it was HATCHET 2 and this guy came in with no [produced] horror credits and they wanted him to do it, I’d be pissed too. But I’ve completely stayed out of it. I wrote the script and they have it. I don’t know what’s going to happen."
Green refuses to discuss the storyline of his CABIN FEVER sequel take. "I love the script I wrote, and I believe the fans would love it. I was a huge fan of the first movie and that’s how I wrote it. But at the same time, you can’t argue with Eli Roth. He has a good point, and that point is that he should do it."
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