Eli Roth outlines new horror plans
Story by Jack Foley
HOSTEL director Eli Roth has been outlining plans for his next three horror movies, which are all in various stages of development.
Speaking at Mexico’s Morelia Film Festival where he has been promoting his starring role in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, Roth said that he will next be applying the finishing touches to Cotton, an exorcism thriller based in Louisiana.
He hopes to be showing the Sundance Film Festival selectors the finished movie in the next couple of weeks with a view to giving Cotton its world premiere at the January showcase of independent film.
Next up is Endangered Species, a film that Roth is deliberately keeping under wraps but which will display his trademark sick sense of humour.
He told Variety: “I haven’t been this excited about an idea since the first Hostel.”
Roth went on to confirm that a third Hostel movie is in development, although he is not involved in any way.
But he will be directing a feature length version of Thanksgiving as a full-length version of another of the fake trailers that were made as part of the Tarantino-Robert Rodriguez project Grindhouse.
Another movie based on those fake trailers, Robert Rodriguez’s Machete, has just wrapped with Danny Trejo in the lead role.
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