Exclusive: Eli Roth Talks 'Thanksgiving'
During an exclusive telephone interview to promote his role as Pvt. Donny Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino's WWII epic Inglourious Basterds, Eli Roth told Cinematical that Thanksgiving is not the next film he's set to direct, but it's definitely going to get made. "That movie, the financing, the money is in a bank account," Roth said. "I mean, I could literally say I'm starting production tomorrow and we'd start. It's 100 percent up to me, but I'm just working on the script with Jeff Rendell, the co-writer. Jeff's the one who in the trailer, he plays the Pilgrim, and we're just writing it. We're just figuring it out and we're just coming up with the kills and the characters."
Thanksgiving was initially created as a fake movie trailer that connected the two theatrical halves of Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez' Grindhouse, but its own popularity inspired the director to blow it up from a 16mm short into a feature film. Roth actually indicated that Endangered Species, a PG-13 sci-fi film in the vein of Cloverfield, was to be his next directorial effort. "I want to be finished with Endangered, and then Jeff is supposed to come out to Los Angeles probably some time in August and we'll probably bang out the script," he explained, indicating that the disparate content of the two films may ultimately complement his enthusiasm creatively.
Read the rest (and see the infamous trailer) at HorrorSquad!
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7-09-2009 @ 2:00PM
matt said...
I've asked this before, does anyone know who the girl in the still above is? Never got a good answer.
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7-09-2009 @ 4:48PM
Patrick said...
Vendula Bednarova (credited as Vendula Kristek) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2603476/
7-09-2009 @ 4:45PM
MCW said...
"We're just figuring it out and we're just coming up with the kills and the characters."
Don't think it's enough to just have clever kills anymore. An original story would be nice.
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7-09-2009 @ 4:49PM
Todd Gilchrist said...
i agree, mcw - although from what i understand, roth conceived this years and years ago (since it was the only major holiday without its own horror franchise) so that may already be done. but then again, i think the movie was pretty perfect at 3 minutes and didn't need to be made into a movie, so let's just hope it ends up being as balls-out fun as the trailer.
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7-09-2009 @ 10:57PM
MCW said...
I wonder if he'll do it Grindhouse style, scratch it up (Digitally at least) and film it on... film? These would all be things that would give me more hope in it, I must say.
I have just watched a string of horrible "horror" movies that were recently released on DVD & Blu-ray, and the main cause of their being terrible happens to be both the lack of an original plot, and the use of funny kills as a way to wink at the audience. No one is finding a way to both relate to viewers of '80's slasher films and not make the movie a parody in the process. If he can succeed in not falling into that trap, I'm happy for him.