In about a fortnight, principal photography gets underway on the new Eli Roth horror flick "Hostel" and the director spoke briefly today about the project:
"Hostel is going to be very, very different from CABIN FEVER in tone. This is not a horror comedy. This is a violent, scary film that will be much closer in tone to a film like Miike's AUDITION or Hooper's TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. I am producing the film with Mike Fleiss (who produced the CHAINSAW remake with Michael Bay) and his partner Chris Briggs, and my Raw Nerve partners Scott Spiegel and Boaz Yakin will Executive Produce. I am extremely lucky that Screen Gems came in and picked the film up for distribution already, so I can make it independently and still have a worldwide theatrical release."
Roth is attached to a bunch of projects right now including a horror movie at Warner Bros. ("Bad Seed"), a comedy at Universal ("Scavenger Hunt"), and a project with Richard Kelly ("The Box"), although as expected the scripts for all of these are still being worked on and aren't going to be ready to shoot for a while yet as "I have a very high standard for what I consider "ready to shoot," and writing a good script takes time. A lot of time, as well as a lot of care...these projects are definitely happening, though I'm not quite sure in what order, for now they are moving forward in active development."
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