Eli Roth Plans to Direct a Big Budget Sci-Fi film and Thanksgiving back to back
The last thing I expected to see Eli Roth to direct is a sci-fi film. The guy began his career by making a decent horror movie called ‘Cabin Fever’ he then went in the direction of torture porn with his ‘Hostel’ movies which I don’t really care for. He most recently took a role in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’. But before he did that he was working on a script for a big budget sci-fi film that he wants to direct. Here is what he had to say:
“I’m almost done with my new script. 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.”
He has a title for the film but doesn't want to tell anybody just yet, but he tells us what the movie will involve.
“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. 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. 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!’.”
I hope to hell it doesn’t have anything to do with the environment. Who knows what he has in store for us as a monster. It would be cool if it was something we have never really seen or heard of before. He also points out it will be more science fiction based than two films that have sci-fi action written all over them. So I wonder if it will take place in outer space.
Remember the little trailer he made for the Grindhouse film ‘Thanksgiving’? Well, he wants to take some of the leftover budget from his big budget sci-fi film and shoot a full length ‘Thanksgiving’ horror film!
“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’. 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.”
That little Thanksgiving trailer he made was the best thing he has done so far so it should be cool to see what he can do for a full length movie. He goes on to say that ‘Thanksgiving’ will be…
“the sickest, bloodiest, most violent slasher movie. I want to make the highest body count slasher film I can.”
I have not been the biggest Eli Roth supporter, but these next two films he wants to do sound like they will be worth watching. What do you think?
Source: MTV